If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
“One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.”
“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.”