" There is a kind of love so intense it will cause men to kill dragons, to risk their lives on the edge of precipices. To wage war. But there is a kind of love, even more intense, that will cause a man to do absolutely nothing. It will sit on his shoulders like twenty sacks of bricks, and render him utterly immobile. Days turned into weeks and then they turned into months, and Joseph could not work up the courage to speak to Imelda. "

― Kei Miller , The Same Earth