Love is a temporary madness...

It's been a while since I read Captain Corelli's Mandolin so I had forgotten the below extract which Paul & Kat (of yesterday's wedding) had printed on the back of their order of service.  I thought I would share it here as it's a lovely piece of prose and would make a great reading at a wedding...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 root was 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 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 blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two. Louis de Bernieres