As a person first falls in love, at least a dozen different brain parts light up to release powerful chemicals — hormones and neurotransmitters — that trigger feelings of excitement, euphoria, bonding, and butterflies.
These moments of beauty can happen in different ways. This is the hundredth anniversary of a discovery made by Albert Einstein of which he wrote, 'For a few days I was beside myself with joyous excitement'.
Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow.
I had been walking for a very short time when I heard a light step coming toward my door. I knew it was Usher. In a moment I saw him at my door, as usual very white, but there was a wild laugh in his eyes.