This book ultimately describes what it feels like to pick someone that you know in the back of your mind is just there to pass the time, yet your heart is blinded by a common emotional tendency called the illusion of the heart. This very thing can seem like love but as time goes on you see that your heart was deceived by what the eyes see, what the hands and lips touch, and what the body feels. Hence the theme "lust's heartbreak drove me to search, to look in places where love seems to lurk."