'"Why shouldn't you accept what comfort those two young things could give you?"
"It's weak," he burst out, "why not stand alone? why depend on another? Why shouldn't the strength of one suffice? Why all this need to double it? Love's wholly a question of weakness; the weaker you are, the more desperately you love. A prop...Love's the first tie for an independent man to rid himself of. It's a weakness that grows too easily out of all proportion. I want my mind for other things, not for anything so trite. So well charted. So...so recurrent."
"Another theory, Silas? Be careful," she lazily teased him; "what we most abuse, you know, is often what we most fear."'
from The Dragon in Shallow Waters by V. Sackville-West (Chapter X, Part 2)
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