Carolina QuotesI’m not quite twenty, but, thanks to you, I’ve learned something that many women these days never learn: Prince Charming really is a toad. And the Beautiful Princess has halitosis. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn’t that be the way to make love stay?
Tom Robbins Carolinian
Source
Leigh-Cheri to Bernard, in Phase III, Ch. 46.
- work
- Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
- year
- 1980
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“I’m not quite twenty, but, thanks to you, I’ve learned somet…” Tom Robbins. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-174C61CC47. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/174c61cc47
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