Love's Presumption to Eternity

"Why does love feel it is - know for certain it is - eternal and absolute, every time? He opened a notebook and found a passage he had copied from Kafka's letters to Felice. 'I have no crazier and greater wish than that we should be bound together inseparably by the wrists.' Of course Kafka wrote letters to Felice only when they were apart. Love letters do not so much document daily love's long hours as precede them."

Annie Dillard in The Maytrees p. 128