The Power of the Love Story

A quote too long for Twitter:

“It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price.  I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery.  Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer.”  

Jeffrey Eugenides, Introduction, My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead