Chapter 30

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; it is appeased by love. This is an eternal Law," I read out loud. I looked up at my study partner.

"Who said that?" Erik asked me. We were at the university library, studying for our term papers for our Philosophy of Love class.

"Buddha," I said. I had a stack of books before me on ancient eastern philosophies. My paper was going to be a study in how the evolution of love in the East differs from the concept in modern Western thought.

"Smart...