Food for thought...

Food for thought...
_"Who are you, anyway?"
_ "Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them."
_"I could have sworn we just met," Madeleine said. "And that you don't know anything about me."
Henry stood up. With a slightly offended air but undiminished confidence, he said, "People don...'t save other people. People save themselves." He left her with that to think about.
The Marriage Plotby Jeffrey Eugenides