Wednesday, June 3, 2009

it's the nature of the species

Something always breaks up love affairs unless both parties are willing to compromise themselves.
-Tim Powers, The Drawing of the Dark

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Steinbeck wrote something about what a man is looking for in a relationship. Flowers, he wrote. "And he brings his own flowers." Compromise is too small a thought. You have to hold on to both the ideal and the real, and each fights hard against your grasp.