“Love? Sodding, bloody, tossing, bloody, sodding, bloody love? Irrelevant, superfluous, bloody, ruddy, rotten, sodding love? What ho? Wherefore? What the f*ck? Love?”

—  Christopher Moore , book Fool

Source: Fool

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American writer of comic fantasy 1957

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