This book is all about Love : a single word at first sight, a wispy thing, at last sight, a word no bigger or longer than an edge at ever and ever sight. It draws up through the center of life, cutting everything in two even before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side."
A common man, with common thoughts, who has led a common life having believe that when you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It explodes like an earthquake, then it subsides. And when it comes down to it, you have to make a decision. You have to find out if your roots are so intertwined that it is inconceivable that you should ever be separated. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not euphoria, it is not the desire to connect every second of the day. It's not lying awake at night, imagining that kisses on every part of your body. No, don't blush. I'm going to tell you some truths. For that is just being in love, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what's left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it ? But it is.