...before you get too caught up in the Valentine's Day madness that has absorbed most of blog-land, why not pause and take a moment to think what love really is.
Love isn't a cupcake, or a bunch of flowers.
Love isn't heart decor, or a dinner date.
Love isn't a card, or a bottle of perfume.
Love isn't something sold by Hallmark or any store, no matter how much they market it to us.
For what love is I'll leave it to Brian Moore, author of The Luck of Ginger Coffey to explain:
"Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures -- when all that's on the shelf and done with. Love -- why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over."
Quite simply the most beautiful thing I've ever read.
xx
I don't know if its because its also 'that time of the month', but I just genuinely cried at that. It is beautiful, and one of the truest things I have ever read. Thank you for sharing it!
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Sarah
skittlesliveinjamjars.blogspot.com
That is so beautiful and definitely is so so true!! Thanks for sharing that Wendy!! xxoo :)
ReplyDeleteWow. That's so powerful.
ReplyDeletethats really beautiful and true!
ReplyDeleteSo tough to read, especially with my dad loosing my mom after being married 58 years. It truly is that sound of silence. This was the most loveliest and most perfect example of love I've read yet. Thank you!
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"a lifetime's talk" <3 sweet quote!! cupcakes and chocolate and cards are icing on the cake...but it's really is about the L.O.V.E. :)
ReplyDeleteAlso just cried at that. Oh my. Weepy Friday here we come!
ReplyDeleteso true,
ReplyDeletethanks so much for sharing x
Oh goodness Wendy... That just gave me chills.
ReplyDeletei absolutely love this and i'm so excited to see this posted in blogland!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, this is so beautiful!! I hope that we all get the chance to know this love.
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That is truly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is really powerful. Yet somehow sad. And even more sad for those that don't have it, I think.
ReplyDeleteOh wendy, thats lovely and so sad at the same time
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Wendy but oh so, so sad x
ReplyDeleteThat's so lovely, i really want to go and give my boyfriend a cuddle
ReplyDeletethis is perfect. it really captures what it is to be really in love, it helped me understand a lot. thanks for posting it.
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