When the heart falls in love, things like dead or alive, age or size don't matter

When the heart falls in love, things like dead or alive, age or size don't matter is Amanda’s reassurance to Celeste that love can cross boundaries that seem to make a relationship impossible. The expression comes during a brief visitation after Celeste’s hospitalization, when her grief and guilt leave her longing for her mother’s guidance and uncertain about Callum.

Origin and Scene

A few days after leaving the hospital, Celeste returns home and goes upstairs with a framed photograph of her mother. Holding it against her chest, she cries and wishes Amanda were there. A gentle breeze and a white light precede the appearance of Amanda’s smiling ghostly figure. Celeste apologizes, but Amanda tells her she is not to blame for what happened and says she believes Celeste will find a way to make things work with Callum.

Celeste objects that Callum is a vampire. Amanda answers with the expression, placing that difference alongside being dead or alive, age, and size as distinctions that need not determine whether love is possible. She promises to remain with Celeste, wipes away her tears, and then leaves. When Celeste opens her eyes, Amanda is gone.

Meaning and Narrative Function

The expression reframes Celeste’s immediate objection: Callum’s vampirism is a real difference, but Amanda presents it as no final measure of whether the two can love one another. The list broadens that reassurance beyond the living and the dead, turning Celeste’s specific fear into a more general claim about love and apparent incompatibility.

The line offers comfort, not a resolution. Amanda says Celeste may find a way forward, but the scene does not show Callum changing his attitude or the conflict between them being settled. After the visitation, Celeste resolves to be strong and not let Callum break her; the expression therefore accompanies both her hope for the relationship and her determination to withstand its pain.