这就是爱,他对自己说,试图用头脑中理性的碎片来审视自己压倒性的情感。正是这种强烈而可怕的渴望让母亲嫁给了那个我不得不称之为父亲的悲惨暴君。故事里有多少愚蠢到令人难以置信的英雄因为恋爱而做出了疯狂危险的事情?更重要的是,我会因此而做多少疯狂的事情?
(So this is love, he said to himself, trying to examine his own overwhelming feelings with the rational fragment of his mind. This is the powerful, horrible longing that made Mother marry that miserable tyrant I had to call Father. How many unbelievably stupid heroes in stories did insanely dangerous things because they were in love? More to the pint, how many insane things am I going to do because of it?)