On the event of love

When two people fall in love, their "meeting" - whether that meeting be their first hours together, or the length of their entire courtship - forms an event for them in relation to which they change their lives. This certainly does not mean that their lives are simply going to be the better for it; on the contrary, love may involve debt, alienated friends, and rupture with one's family. The point is that love changes their relation to the world irrevocably. The duration of the lover's relationship depends upon their fidelity to that event and how they change according to what they discover through their love.

- Oliver Feltham & Justin Clemens, from the introduction to Alan Badiou's Infinite Thought