“Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.”
Source: Then Came You
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Context: "Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!"
"The what?" said Richard.
"The catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention. It is a door within a door, you see, a..."
"Yes," said Richard, "there was also the small matter of gravity."
"Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissive shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there to be discovered." …
"You see?" he said dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap … ah, there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention. It is a door within a door, you see."
“Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.”
Source: Then Came You
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
“That's what happens when you love someone… you notice and notice and notice.”
Source: The Crimson Crown
"America's Medieval Women," Harper's Magazine (August 1938)