“Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?”

— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

Variant: obstinate, adj.
Sometimes it becomes a contest: Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?
Source: The Lover's Dictionary

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David Levithan447

American author and editor 1972

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