“Love is a very strange idea. I never know what it is. When you were young it seemed to be all intensity and no opportunity. Later when you did get the opportunity the fire had gone out of it.”

— Bernard MacLaverty , book Cal

Source: Novels, Cal (1983), Ch.5 - p.140

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