Nikki Gemmell suggests that romantic love can be transient, delusional, and debilitating when it takes possession of our lives and our senses and leaves us unanchored by optimistic infatuations. After reading Gemmell’s Death of a Romantic, I considered the archetypal lovers who embodied the passions and romance I dreamt of in my youth and even though I have not experienced that rich, mature requited love that comes with years of being, living and believing; the love I have experienced, provided me with quietness, security, and hope.
If the experience of enduring and requited love is as she so beautifully describes ‘a harbor or a haven to rest from all the toss of the world’, then indeed the best is yet to come.
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