"A wise girl kisses, but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."  - Marilyn Monroe

As much as I agree with this quote, I can't help but feel rather saddened by it.  I want to believe that love and intimacy are to be cherished and valued, not used as tools to get what you want.  But those are words of romantics who reside somewhere other than reality.  Love is perhaps the shiny wrapping and pretty bow we put on lust to make ourselves seem more evolved, more human.  Or it is just chemical interactions.  Either way, I would be naive to believe that I live in a world filled with words that are anything more than just rhetoric.