It Isn't Love!
There is a conversation between Richard Jury and Vernon Rice in Martha Grimes' book, The Grave Maurice, which talks about love in terms of how you know whether you're in love or not. Vernon says:
"I know I wasn't in love because when she went away I didn't miss her. Because I could stand having her out of my sight; because I didn't want to touch her every time I saw her; because I didn't have the urge to buy her flowers every time I passed a flower stall; because I didn't look for her around every corner; because she wasn't in my head every time I looked up from a market report; because she didn't make me feel stoned--and didn't make me feel glad I wasn't; she didn't fire up my imagination; she didn't make me forget the gloom of the past, as the song goes. Because she didn't make me almost wish she'd disappear so I could find her."
That's a lot to think about!
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