TRUE LOVE: "Dark Harbor" (Eve)

I can't remember where I read this, but I was very much struck by one woman's description of love as not an impulse or emotion but "a structuring of time together." I like that. But that phrasing also reminds me of this little speech from the deeply creepy suspense movie "Dark Harbor" (speech is best in context, but at least try to imagine it being spoken in Alan Rickman's most forbidding tones):

I remember what I used to think love was then. I thought it was the fireworks, the explosions, the highlights. But it's not. It's time--to go through the seasons together, through change, through the ups and downs. To be able to look your beloved in the eye and say, "We did that together--as one--chose each other above all others." That's love. It's unexplainable. It's a secret that can only be known... once you've done the time.

posted by Eve at 5:49 PM VOTE

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