August 12th, 2013 → 6:24 am @ Lea // No Comments

“Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.”  – Sonnet 116

I’m currently reading Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon, and it’s quite engrossing.  I’m learning all about dwarfs, prodigies, schizophrenics, and more.  At one point Solomon vigorously disputes the above quote, saying it is not true that love is constant, but instead that it “alters all the time; it is fluid, in perpetual flux, an evolving business across a lifetime.”  I think the distinction may be between love in the short run and love in the long run.  Over the long run, sure, love evolves.  But if in the short run your love for someone easily alters, it probably isn’t actually love, but something else.