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“You would not search the woodside gay To pick a springtime flower When all the shuddering country groans Before the North Wind's power. Nor would you seek with greedy hand To pluck your vines in May; The wine god gives his gift of grapes When Autumn's on the way. For God has fixed the season's tasks And each receives its own: No power is free to disarray The order God has shown.”

“The woodland made it impossible to run in a straight line. She ran deeper, unsure of her bearing or when she might find civilization. Headlights ahead to the right preceded a drumming of tires on the pavement. The truck stopped. Sharnee altered her course toward the truck and screamed. Fifteen seconds later she pitched forward as if someone grabbed her ankle and threw her to the ground.”

“While we associate love with romance and passion, making love in everyday life revolves more around an attempt to create and sustain meaning and happiness. The search for perfect love is probably as fruitless as the search for perfect happiness. Kaufmann argues that passion will always erupt in people’s lives, but that if a couple can develop a relationship based on agapic love, then it is possible for them to build a house ‘of little pleasures brick by brick’.”