L...is for the way you look at me

The novel Love evoked a vast array of emotions for the reader throughout the entire novel. Even throughout the Forward, I was highlighting and rereading passages just to be able to fully appreciate the text. Lines such as "The most bitter betrayal, of course, does not come from an enemy whose deceit one expects. It comes most chillingly from a friend, a trusted one - or one's one self" (Morrison, xi), reflect life's true ways and happenings. The author sprinkles the novel with such interesting life quotes such as that listed above; lines that make so much sense but it seems that they have never been said in such a way before. And because of this, it makes them stand out and makes the reader take notice.

O...is for the only one I see

The theme of Love is plastered all over the novel, all seemingly normal relationships but in someway slightly different than expected. There was the obvious, heterosexual love between Heed and Bill Cosey, although it was abnormal due to the large age gap between the two. There was the psuedo typical mother-daughter love between Christine and May, which was abnormal because of the way May sent her daughter away from her as to protect her from the goings-on at the hotel. Heed and Christine loved each other as best friends, which was twisted after Heed's marriage to Christine's grandfather, Bill.

V...is very, very extraordinary

To truly love someone is a very powerful thing, something that changes your life, a moment in time when everything thereafter will never be the same. And I think this is why it hurts like hell to "fall out of love"; although I don't believe that is exactly possible. I think it hurts so badly beacuse you're really just trying to distort, mold, disorganize, and piece together those emotions into something, or someone, else. And it hurts because that's not what you're supposed to do with those feelings, but we do it nonetheless.

E...is even more than anyone you adore can

In Love, there was a lot of this, molding, changing, disorganizing love. Bill Cosey and his love for his first wife and then changing that into love for Heed; the love shared between Heed and Christine as best friends; the mother-daughter love of May and Christine although Christine felt so rejected by her mother. In many ways the characters in the novel all tried to change and recreate their first feelings of love into other kinds of love, into maybe more socially acceptable or easier forms. But its obvious that love is not so easily thrown to the side or manipulated; love is a force to be reckoned with.