Themes
You can't choose what you love, it chooses you.
— Dawson • Dawson's Creek
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Love isn't a menu you pick from. The speaker says it arrives on its own terms, choosing you rather than the other way around. It's a romantic, slightly fatalistic take on attraction as something that happens to us instead of something we decide.
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