Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are . The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Stone’s remark challenges a common narrative convention: that romance belongs to youth and culminates in marriage, after which “real life” begins and passion fades. He argues the opposite—that marriage can be the setting for deeper, more complex romance because it involves sustained intimacy, shared trials, and the daily choice to remain devoted. The “blindness” he criticizes is the tendency to mistake novelty for love and to treat the wedding as an ending rather than a beginning. The quote elevates mature affection—built through time, responsibility, and mutual knowledge—as the richest form of romantic story.