# Quote — Theodore Sturgeon, To Marry Medusa

> Love, Caroline, isn’t…that. Love is everything else that can be between a man and a woman, without that.

- Author: [Theodore Sturgeon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon.md)
- Book: [To Marry Medusa](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/to-marry-medusa.md)
- Page: 40
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#To_Marry_Medusa_(1958)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/to-marry-medusa/love-caroline-isnt-that

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p. 27 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/to-marry-medusa/a-man-with.md)