Flowers for Algernon Love Quotes

Well, looky there—it turns out being too smart can actually be a barrier to love. Poor Charlie is just figuring out that having an edge up on everyone else can make it awfully difficult to find common ground with his sweetheart.

Now that Charlie is playing Freud to himself, we get more of an idea of why he can't do the deed with Alice. Is old Charlie trying to protect himself from getting hurt? Is he trying to sabotage himself? Psychology is some pretty tricky stuff.

Oh boy, Charlie's finally got it all. It's hard to tell whether he's talking about physical or emotional love, but that seems like it's the point—he's figured love out just in time to lose it forever.