love

[britta43]

"The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that or deserves the burden of it either. You'll be let down. You'll be dissappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of really sucky days. You'll lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But, shit, you roll up your sleeves and work--at everything--because that's what growing older is."

--annabeth, Mystic River by Dennis Lehane