'I'm sorry weddings depress you, Ferris. Surely when two people love each other and mean to go on loving each other...' 'Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.'

Most writers on this subject conclude that the notions Ist person, IInd person and IIIrd person are semantic primes, ie.., cannot be further broken down into other semantic components.

Not because she wanted to hurt something, but rather because her bondmate called to her instinctual desire to mate.

to strew sand over a floor