I'll admit that I haven't been reading much since graduation, that sometimes it's something that I must force myself to do because my attention span is incredibly, amazingly short. So this is from the most unlikely of places, John Wyndham's The Chrysalids, this year's O-level text. It's Science Fiction, and was also my required reading so that I could tutor my kid. I haven't read a more beautiful/poetic representation of what we call love:
"So you're in love with her?" she went on.
"A word again... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has taken too much of the other ever to be entirely himself alone; when one has reached the beginning of seeing with a single eye, loving with a single heart, enjoying with a single joy; when there can be moments of identity and nothing is separate save bodies that long for one another... When there is that, where is the word? There is only the inadequacy of the word that exists."
"We love one another," I said.
I hope that everyone at some point in their lives experiences this inadequacy. Happy October :)
"So you're in love with her?" she went on.
"A word again... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has taken too much of the other ever to be entirely himself alone; when one has reached the beginning of seeing with a single eye, loving with a single heart, enjoying with a single joy; when there can be moments of identity and nothing is separate save bodies that long for one another... When there is that, where is the word? There is only the inadequacy of the word that exists."
"We love one another," I said.
I hope that everyone at some point in their lives experiences this inadequacy. Happy October :)