"that's the hard part" said Midori. She watched the smoke rising for a while, thinking. "I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough"
"waiting for the perfect love?"
"no, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortbread. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this piece of strawberry shortbread out to me. And I say I don't want it any more and throw it out of the window - that's what I'm looking for"
"I'm not sure that has anything to do with love," I said with some amazment.
"It does" she said. "you just don't know it. There are times in a girl's life when things like that are incredibly important"
"things like throwing strawberry shortbread out of the window?"
"exactly. And when I do it, I want the man to apologise to me. 'Now I see, Midori. What a fool I've been! I should have known that you would lose your desire for strawberry shortbread . I have all the intelligence and sensitivity of a piece of donkey shit. To make it up to you, I'll go and buy you something else. What would you like? Chocolate mousse? cheescake?'"