„All I Know About Love”
Neil Gaiman
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„This is everything I have to tell you about love: nothing.
This is everything I have learned about marriage: nothing.
Only that the world out there is complicated,
and there are beasts in the night, and delight and pain,
and the only thing that makes it okay, sometimes,
is to reach out a hand in the darkness and find another
hand to squeeze
and not be alone.
It’s not the kisses, or never just the kisses: it’s what they
mean.
Somebody’s got your back.
Somebody knows your worst self and somehow doesn’t
want to rescue you
or send for the army to rescue them.
It’s not two broken halves becoming one.
It’s light from a distant lighthouse bringing you both
safely home.
Because home is wherever you are both together.
So this is everything I have to tell you about love and
marriage: nothing,
like a book without pages or a forest without trees.
Because there are some things you cannot know before you
experience them.
Because no study can prepare you for the joys or trials.
Because nobody else’s love, nobody else’s marriage, is like
yours,
and it’s a road you can only learn by walking it,
a dance that cannot be taught,
a song that did not exist before you began, together, to
sing.
And because in the darkness you will reach out a hand,
not knowing for certain if someone is even there.
And your hands will meet,
and then neither of you will ever need to be alone again.
And that’s all I know about love.”
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