I have for the first time found that which I can truly love--I have found you.
You are my sympathy--my better self--my good angel--
I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
I think you good, gifted, lovely;
a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart;
it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life,
wrap my existence about you--
and, kindling in pure, powerful flame,
fuses you and me to one
( Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre)
These words by Charlotte Bronte, which my Mom read at our wedding, are more suitable than any I can articulate. 