“Love’s a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.”

—  Theodore Sturgeon , book More Than Human

Source: More Than Human (1953), Chapter 3, p. 169

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American speculative fiction writer 1918–1985

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