Margit’s Reviews > A Working Theory of Love > Status Update

"When you spend significant amounts of time with someone they offer constant feedback, becoming part of the patterning of your brain. In other words, part of you. But I take your point--constant feedback is not always deep feedback. A good measure of how much of you they've become is your level of distress when they're gone. If they form a large part of your patterning, then you'll experience a major culling..."

"A relationship that doesn't last isn't a failure; it's just a time in your life that's come to an end."

"'...I wish I had a paid vacation.' Can't he see? You have to have something IN your life in order to vacate." (IN should be italic)

"As she talks her lips shape the night's darkness. 'I think we weren't really able to see each other through the fog of our own self-regard.'"

"If you can give a person just enough so that thirty percent of the time they believe you're who they want you to be--intelligence."

I thought curse words when I laughed SO hard on page 12. I thought curse words when my chest constricted and I blinked tears from my eyes on page 102. Damn, this book is good. It's very real.