I didn't find out until I became a father. You don't just LOVE your children. You FALL in love with them.

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."

A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture
of affection, care, desire and expectation.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Thank you,” she says and yanks the pull-tab off the soda can. She takes a big sip and aaahs. Then she takes the pull-tab and puts it on her ring finger like a wedding band. She holds her hand out and looks at it.
“Someday,” she says wistfully.
“Wow, a soda pop pull-tab ring. You’re easy. Most girls want their ring from Tiffany’s.”
“Well, I’m not most girls.”
She’s telling me?

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.