this gives me happy heart ache

'Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and day dreams, fights and futures--when all that's on the shelf and done with.
Love--why, i'll tell you what love is: it's you at seventy five and her at seventy one, each of you listening to the sound of the others step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetimes talk is over."
-(Brian Moore)