“Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.”

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 3 “Spectral Lines” (p. 40)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when …" by Ken MacLeod?
Ken MacLeod photo
Ken MacLeod 25
Scottish science fiction writer 1954

Related quotes

Alfred Freddy Krupa photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Jenny Han photo
Mariah Carey photo

“The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.”

Dossie Easton (1944) American author and family therapist

Source: The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

W.B. Yeats photo

“I had a thought for no one's but your ears:
That you were beautiful, and that I strove
To love you in the old high way of love;”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

St. 5
In The Seven Woods (1904), Adam's Curse http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1431/
Context: I had a thought for no one's but your ears:
That you were beautiful, and that I strove
To love you in the old high way of love;
That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown
As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.

Khaled Hosseini photo
Georgie Hyde-Lees photo

“After your death people will write of your love affairs, but I shall say nothing, because I will remember how proud you were.”

Georgie Hyde-Lees (1892–1968) Wife of Yeats

Quoted in Richard Ellman A Long the Riverrun: Selected Essays (1988), p. 253

Related topics