True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.
Laurell K. HamiltonBut if anything will turn me off, it's a very practiced approach, as if the man has done it a thousand times before, to a lot of different women. Which always seems to imply that I am no different from all the rest. Not flattering.
Laurell K. HamiltonThat was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.
Laurell K. Hamilton