"Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved."

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..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny.

— Curtis Sittenfeld