Her Heart's Thoughts

My favourite description of love is from the movie Captain Corelli’s Mandolin: (Iannis to Pelagia) When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that 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 desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No...don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For 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 had burned away. I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you...Roy Croft. Love creates an "us" without destroying a "me"....Unknown. I love you not only for w...