"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 to become 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 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 has burned away🙂. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is!"

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières