I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.

Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you see on a much deeper level? It's lots easier to visualize people we don't know very well.

Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.

Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.

If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.