Helen Fisher

Love is a need, a craving, a drive to seek life’s greatest prize: a mating partner. We are born to love

Moved by the force of love,

fragments of the world seek out one another

so that a world may be.

—PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

The gaze is probably the most striking human courting ploy. Eye language

men and women often stare intently at a potential mate for about two to three seconds during which their pupils may dilate—a sign of extreme interest. Then the starer drops his or her eyelids and looks away

Eye contact seems to have an immediate effect