'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.' She shook her head.[…] 'What they do is their nature,' she said. - Kingsley Amis

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

[I]t's human to choose any sort of path into the future rather than face the long road back to what you've left behind.