to love and be loved is to relinquish control of everything.
to love and be loved is to unlearn the games you are taught to play and facades you are supposed to keep.
to love and be loved is to be raw and open and animal and ugly and beautiful — all at once.
to love and be loved is to live in the valleys in one another so next time, it may rise to meet you.
to love and be loved is to be the emergency and the relief, the storm and its eye, the night that hides and the morning that will never let you.
to love and be loved is to kiss and fall silent over and over again until you tire of lips and move elsewhere.
to love and be loved is to be extraordinarily human and divinely felt.