Couples get together. They're happy for a couple of months. Then they desperately cling to that brief time for as long as they possibly can, vainly struggling to convince themselves that they're still happy.
Then they either get married or break up and repeat the process.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
-Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein