Everything Is Illuminated

“Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.” 
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Maple Tree

  Out of darkness or night comes light. Love, like the sun, awakens us and illuminates everything so that even an old or petrified body can be nourished by it. The light of a new day or a new romance  stops us and forces us to look more carefully. It penetrates through and reaches our inner darkness.When love is strong, it guides you to safety, like a beam from a lighthouse. So does this music.