Jeanette Winterson...love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down
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...love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. "Like an ice floe" is a phrase from a play by Tennessee Williams called "Orpheus Descending." In this play, a man tries to convince his lover that he's been unfaithful. In the play, the idea of love as an iceberg is used as a metaphor for the fact that it is hard to see the beauty beneath the surface. Love can be beautiful and worth fighting for, but it can also hurt you much more than you think.
Source: The Powerbook
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