Love is like oxygen; love is a many splendoured thing; love.. lifts us up where we belong; all you need is love! (Christian, Moulin Rouge!)

Firstly, I'd like to apologize for missing this Sunday's sermon. I was camping, yet again, and forgot to pre-write one. Sorry...

Now, I am working on my book, and sometimes that involves reading stuff that you already wrote. I happened to stumble across a particularly pretty one, and it rang with the same quality of the stuff I write here, so I thought I'd put it down. I'll describe the scene then write down the quote.
So, the character's name is Lily. She is one of my favourite to write about, because she is rambunctious and energetic and always getting herself into sticky situations because of her clumsiness. But around the middle of the book, her whole family dies in a tragic fire. The only reason she wasn't killed was because she was visiting her friend, a slave at a nearby castle. While she is there, she finds out that he was whipped to death for impertinence to his master, and she realizes that she had fallen in love with him too late. Once she sees the ruined pile that is her home, she falls into a severe emotional breakdown and runs away. One of her closest friends, Nathan, comes looking for her and is really the only thing that keeps her from drying up and blowing away in the wind. This is all stretched out throughout the book, as I bounce between characters, and the following quote is when she is starting to get a grip again.

"My dad died," Nathan said. "Mom still considers herself to be married. She told me that as long as she still loves him and not someone else, she is still married. I don't know if she's fallen in love or anything. And apparently, I'm not going to find out."
Lily laughed lightly and Nathan looked pleased. He put his arm around her shoulder and kissed the top of her head. She smiled. "Love is sometimes hard to define," she commented. He looked at her curiously. "Well, I mean, sometimes you say you love a person and you think you love them, so you stay with them all the time until one day, you look out the window and 'fall in love' again. With someone else. Or maybe you'd never even wanted to be in love, and if you were asked if you were, you'd say no. Then, one day, that person is taken away. All of a sudden you realize quite how much and how deep you had fallen." She bit her lip, pausing for a moment and glancing at Nathan quickly. "Then there's the kind of love that you always take for granted. The kind that isn't a passion or a binding, life-long thing. It's just a person who cares and takes care of you. That kind is all around, and we never realize that. And we never even thank them. But really, without those kinds of lovers, our lives would fall apart." She looked up at him, tears in her perfectly azure eyes. "That's why I thank you."

(this is the scene that I took the title from, the quote is right at the beginning)
~Godspede