Jitterbug Perfume

by Tom Robbins

It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.

THE HIGHEST FUNCTION OF LOVE is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

A few other flowers may be as sweet, but jasmine is sweet without sentiment, sweet without effeteness, sweet without compromise; it is aggressively sweet, outrageously sweet: “I am sweet,” says the jasmine, “and if you don't like it, you can kiss my sweet ass.”