He smiled. "I suppose I thought we'd have a madly impractical, terrifyingly modern sort of marriage. One based on love. Not to mention dangerous undertakings and hair's-breadth escapes from burning buildings, high ledges and exploding sewers."" And bickering."" Always that, yes."" Assuming I want to marry at all."" True. I know of no good way of forcing you to do anything."" And you're mad enough to think it could work - one day?" He cupped her face in his hands. His smile was so brilliant it seemed to illuminate the room. "I think it would be heaven." She trembled, then. "You have a very strange idea of heaven."" Kiss me and see. Y.S. Lee
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In this quote from the American novelist Edith Wharton, the author describes the kind of romantic love that she lived with her husband, Henry James. This love was a deep and abiding passion, but it was not a passion of blood. It was a passionate love of intellect and intellect alone. Love for a man does not have to be anything physical or physical at all, so long as it is intellectual.

Source: The Traitor In The Tunnel

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