Julian Barnes on Love

“The way I visualize it, or would dramatize it, is when you meet someone and fall in love with them, it's as if you are at opposite sides of the restaurant looking at one another. As you go on, you end up at one of those tables where you are sitting side by side, looking out at the world. But you are talking to one another about the world, and you have a whole bank of shared assumptions from previous conversations. So it does change, but the conversation must go on.” – Julian Barnes