“Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins … there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.”

— David Gemmell , book Quest for Lost Heroes

Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 2

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“Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins … there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.”

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