sisters wedding

[DorothyClair]

thanks for responses to last question. Is there any adult fiction in which one person describes their partner with love.

No religious or Phrophet stuff - we turned our back on that stuff a long time ago - but we still care about the world and each other.

[Shipstabber]

There is a nice passage about love in Louis de Bernieres' 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin':

Love is a temporary madness,
it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides.
And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
You have to work out whether your roots have 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 eternal passion.
That is just being "in love" which any fool can do.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away,
and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground,
and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches,
they find that they are one tree and not two.

[Litchick]

My husband and I are COMPLETELY not religious either and specifically asked for the words "God" and "Lord", etc," to not be included in the ceremony, but the passage was so beautiful that we decided to include it anyway.

Cheers!