What’s the Difference between “falling in love” and “loving someone?’

Hi there! I wanted ask you out of curiosity and the fact that I really don’t know, what is the difference between falling for someone and being in love or loving someone? You write a lot about that in your books so I just wanted to know. Like, when Patrick broke up with Alice because he fell for Amanda and Alice said she thinks he fell for the snake penny. Also, we know Alice always loved Patrick and she even admitted it, but was Alice Patrick’s first real love? By the way, if you have any new books coming out it will be my pleasure to read them!! 🙂

You think I’m an expert on love?  I think that Lester says it best in one of the Alice books–that the three elements in real love–he’s talking about romantic love, not motherly love–are passion, tenderness and joy.  “Falling in love” is the sensation of being very attracted to someone and interested in getting to know that person better.  And real love can certainly start that way.  Almost has to, because no matter how attracted you are, you still have much to learn about each other.  Finally, I think, if your love for each other is genuine, you have the feeling that you really want to spend your life with that person and can’t imagine life without him or her.  Also, that you feel you can talk about almost anything with them.