According to People, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone have secretly ended their four-year relationship, if a relationship can ever be said to truly end. Does a river end? Do memories end? People’s source says the couple broke up months ago but “there was no drama,†adding, “they still have love for each other,†as if we lived in a world where love could be snuffed out like a candle instead of living on forever in text messages and two Amazing Spider-Man films.
As Joanna Newsom sings, “When cruel death debases / We believe it erases all the rest / That precedes / But stand brave, life-liver / Bleeding out your days / In the river of time / Stand brave / Time moves both ways.†Indeed, if there are words that can comfort Andrew Garfield, let them be these: Love is not a symptom of time; time is a symptom of love.