Why are some things easier to write than say?

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?

I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.

We are not lost mermaids with seaweed hair and coins for eyes, but human girls, alive and found.
We are sisters, and we did not drown.

What are the gifts given to we who live Below?"
"Long life, health, strength, and happiness."
"What is the curse of those who live Above?"
"Short life, illness, weakness, and misery."
"Is this fair?"
"It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below."
"Then give thanks.

I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is