" Did you have a love that grand?” I asked him. No. I never did. Did you? “No, and I wouldn’t want to. It would be too painful if it failed.” But to experience it once—even if it is painful—don’t you think it would be worth it? Wouldn’t you want to know what that kind of intensity is like? Wouldn’t you want to feel that deeply? “I don’t think most people can. Not the way I imagine it. "

― M.J. Rose , The Secret Language of Stones (Daughters of La Lune #2)