To like someone is to smile when they text you.
To love someone is to wait for a message, even when you know it may never come.
To like is to find someone charming, to want to talk, to be close.
To love is to want to stay beside them even when they’re not charming, not cheerful, not perfect.
Liking is a gentle feeling, fleeting like the first breeze of spring.
Loving is a quiet storm, settling deep into the corners of your heart, changing you, helping you grow.
To like is to wonder what they’re doing.
To love is to wonder if they’re okay.
To like is to want them to belong to you.
To love is to want them to be happy—even if that happiness doesn’t include you.
Liking can happen at first sight.
Love takes time, understanding, and sometimes, healing through pain.
Sometimes, liking is the beginning of love.
But liking alone isn’t always enough to make someone stay.
Only love—true love—makes you choose to stay, even when things get hard.
