Anne Boyer, in A Handbook of Disappointed Fate ("Crush Index"): "Some species of crushes: the crush of intersecting research interests, the crush of good politics, the crush of great poems, the crush of proximity, the crush of lack of proximity, the crush on who you've never met, the crush on whoever sits next to you and begins to talk, the crush on the highly informed gossip, the crush on who leads with cruelty and ends with affection, the crush on who leads with affection and ends with cruelty, the crush on whoever you were content to observe, the crush on who you think could use a little more education, the crush on a fighting spirit."