Crina

“It wasn’t really a date,” I said. “Just dinner.”
“Did he pay?”
“Yes.”
“Did he kiss you?”
A bit of a hesitation this time. “Yes.”
“Then it was a date.”
― Tiffany Snow, Point of No Return

“What’d he say?” she asked.
“He kissed me.”
She whistled. “Gotta like his style, girl.”
― Tiffany Snow, Point of No Return

“I don’t care if you go to bed smelling like him, so long as you wake up smelling like me.”
― Tiffany Snow, Point of No Return

“Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider’s ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?