❝ Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world. The effect is out of all proportion with the cause. Two persons, neither of them, it may be, very amiable or very beautiful, meet, speak a little, and look a little into each other's eyes. That has been done a dozen or so of times in the experience of either with no great result. But on this occasion all is different. They fall at once into that state in which another person becomes to us the very gist and center point of God's creation, and demolishes our laborious theories with a smile; in which our ideas are so bound up with the one master-thought that even the trivial cares of our own person become so many acts of devotion, and the love of life itself is translated into a wish to remain in the same world with so precious and desirable a fellow-creature. ❞

➳ taken from On Falling in Love by Robert Louis Stevenson (Virginibus Puerisque)

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I'm in need of help
Are you the one?
To show me to myself
Are you the one?
Is it hesitance
Or is this feeling heaven sent?
Staring at the sun
Are you the one?


'Cause I've been waiting
Waiting for the end

Maybe we could be
Sweet eternity
Are you the one?
Are you the one?

Dreaming I'm sleep
Are you the one?
Pray my soul to keep
Comfort seems unreal
The opposite of how I feel
Before I come undone
Are you the one?


'Cause I've been waiting
Waiting for the end

Maybe we could be
Sweet eternity
Maybe we could be
Are you the one?
Are you the one?

➳ Are You The One by Basement

https://youtu.be/94t-YtxulOk

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i'm so excited for this new story. it's just something i wanna read...

anyway, so.

two things have inspired this story: 1) a song by basement, and 2) an essay by r.l. stevenson. both of which you have just read.

i hope you enjoy.