pattern of actions.

"But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day."
-Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

close.

“At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. "
-Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

magic.

"The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person."
-Vi Putnam