22Jun/101
When it subsides
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Thoughts?
June 23rd, 2010 - 00:32
I might add that the “breathlessness and the excitement” are certainly pretty great part of the experience.