McFarlane is a first time novelist and said her book was inspired partly by children's stories about wild animals, and explores love, dependence and the mysterious workings of the human mind.
"We love the dependence on them.
Love is the tale of several women connected by their love or dependence on the deceased Bill Cosey, the charismatic entrepreneur who owned the hotel; his effect on their lives is slowly unfolded in sections called Portrait, Friend, Stranger, Benefactor, Lover, Husband, Guardian and Father.
Ivan complained that Linda confused love and dependence and explained why he didn't like commitments.
Love, hate, dependence, resentment, the feeling that they overpower you, wanting to be free of them.
Within our philosophy and within our culture, we cannot take seriously our love and dependence on animals without turning them into medicine and making ourselves sick.
Most notably in Billy Budd (1951) and The Turn of the Screw (1954), he turned his affections, and his own uncertainty about them, to sublimely artistic use in his depiction of innocence and corruption, of love's dependence and its betrayal.
The audience sees the real relationship between the famous brothers, and how their lives' journeys were based on trust, love and dependence on each other while achieving the American dream.
Is his dependence on junk he gorges on a banquet of "Falcon Crest," "Magnum, P.I.," and "Charlie's Angels," and invites Lipsky to dine on Diet Pepsi and Twizzlers a heedless addiction or a loving embrace of Americana?
Europe, for example, would love to reduce its dependence on natural gas from Russia, and discussions about exploring for shale-gas reserves are taking place in Germany, Hungary and Romania, as well as Poland.
Although there are philosophers of mind, like Daniel Dennett and Thomas Nagel, who also consider whether animals are capable of emotions or reason, love and emotional dependence — most especially the love of animals — are still seen as too feminine, too lightweight, to be serious philosophical issues.
