It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.
To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.
I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.
She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.
It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.