Here, Robert Brownburn had won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for one of his poems and was telling Arthur Less what he thinks about winning it. Because people who never met you can’t love you. And to him, settling for a romantic relationship without love is worse than being alone. But the only problem is that Arthur Less cannot find the crucial element of love in these people. Apart from those two people he has loved, there have been other people with good qualities that make them suitable to be his partner. Here, the quote talks about the protagonist and his love life. But once you’ve been in love, you can’t live with ”will do” it’s worse than living with yourself Less At First This leaves Zohra wondering what love truly is and asking the questions in the quote above. Janet claims the love with this new person is the type described in poems as the burn of a flame or an electric shock. From Zohra’s rants, we see that what she shared with Janet was a stable and safe relationship where love is expressed in caring gestures like one partner taking the dog for a walk to allow the other partner to take a nap.īut after eight years, Janet falls in love with someone else and leaves Zohra. Zohra is heartbroken because Janet her lover of eight years left her for another woman. Zohra, one of the friends the main character Arthur Less made in Morocco, was drunk on her birthday and ranting to Arthur about her love life. The age-long question of what is love comes up in ‘ Less‘ as well.

What is love, Arthur? … Is it the good dear thing I had with Janet for eight years? Is it the good dear thing? Or is it the lightning bolt? The destructive madness that hit my girl? Zohra to Arthur in Morocco

In this article are selected quotes from the award-winning comic novel. From philosophical questions about love to a lighthearted play on words, the story of ‘ Less‘ by Andrew Sean Greer has a lot of quotes to inspire and entertain its readers.

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