I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath. Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt like I could see through t something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way. . Sue Monk Kidd
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When a person is in love, the sensation of being the moon and the trees on fire at sunset is very similar to the feeling of being in love. However, this quote is not about love. It's about the feeling of being in love. The speaker is describing a sense that she has for her partner that is so strong that it resembles a sensation that you get when looking at the sun setting on a farm.

The person she is describing feels like he has been consumed by light from the sun on an afternoon when dusk falls. This feeling of being consumed by light, or a sensation of being filled with a substance, is very similar to what people feel when they are in love. It is so strong that you have trouble even describing it because it becomes so unlike anything else in your life.

Source: The Secret Life Of Bees

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