“We have also developed ways of trying to get something of the love our hearts cried out for. The ache is there. Our desperate need for love and affirmation, our thirst for some taste of romance and adventure and beauty is there. So we turned to boys or food or to romance novels; we lost ourselves in our work or at church or in some sort of service. All this adds up to the women we are today. Much of what we call our personalities is actually the mosaic of our choices for self-protection plus our plan to get something of the love we were created for.”
- Redeeming Love, John and Stasi Eldridge