Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love.
bell hooks: The Will to Change
Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love.
bell hooks: The Will to Change
Oh, well (she thought), if the world were populated solely by persons who loved and desired each other symmetrically, it might be happier, but not so interesting.
Neal Stephenson: The Confusion
Heaven wasn't built in a day.
I overthink your p-punctuation use
Lorde: The Lourve
"If this is love," said Orlando to herself, looking at the Archduke on the other side of the fender, and now from the woman's point of view, "there is something highly ridiculous about it."
[...]
Was it impossible then to go for a walk without being half suffocated, presented with a toad set in emeralds, and asked in marriage by an Archduke?
Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. So much the better. I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love.
Jane Austen: Emma
Its better to be
Right and alone
Than wrong and in love
Or was it
The other way around