Karen Marie Moning: "Meskipun cinta dapat tumbuh di masa damai, cinta...

"Meskipun cinta dapat tumbuh di masa damai, cinta itu meledak dalam pertempuran. Ayah pernah memberitahuku - ketika aku mengatakan sesuatu tentang betapa sempurna hubungannya dengan Ibu - bahwa aku seharusnya melihat lima tahun pertama pernikahan mereka, bahwa mereka bertempur seperti neraka, saling bertabrakan seperti dua batu raksasa. Bahwa pada akhirnya mereka saling mengikis menjadi sangat pas, menjadi dinding tunggal, bersarang di lekukan dan lubang masing-masing, kekuatannya mengacak kelemahannya, kelemahannya diperkuat oleh kekuatannya."

--- Karen Marie Moning

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.