“They call it falling in love because you get this feeling in the pit of your stomach like you've just jumped off a cliff. And if it's unrequited love, that feeling never goes away---you're just falling and falling and falling until eventually you think you're just going to die. Now, if it's requited love, if it's reciprocated, you're still jumping off the cliff, but someone else is jumping off with you. It's like instead there's this great chasm between the two of you, and you jump off the cliff and into the chasm at the same time with the belief that if the two of you meet in the middle, you will fly.” 
--19 year old Me

[resurrected and reconstructed from a late night conversation with Matt R in the shadowed living room of the D Family]