Astonish Me - Pg 149

 All those years ago, when Jacob drove Joan out to the beach with plans to kiss her, the tension of loving her had been so electric, so torturous, that he had worried about cardiac arrest, about being killed by his own desire. Now that he is finally--finally, after more than twenty years--sure of her love, the longing has vanished. he still loves her, but no passion, especially not one germinated in a hothouse of adolescent despair, could survive so much familiarity and certainty. She has changed, too. She is not so wary anymore, not always in retreat, not unknowable. They are two animals inhabiting the same den, each accepting the presence of the other, going about the business of living.