"You never told me if you enjoyed your romance novel."
"Not really - the idea of love makes me nervous."
"Care to elaborate?"
"Familial love is an evolutionary necessity – it is a convenient bound that assures the protection of the weaker. To some degree, the same reasoning can explain love for the country, for a friend, for mankind. What truly seems out of place is romantic love, for there is no need to justify what's merely a biological function. So, why does it exist?"
"We are the fruits of chaotic odds and the survivors of improbable circumstances, but that doesn't mean that there is a reason for everything we are or feel – nature isn't perfectly logic, neither are we."