Loves Quotes (page 623)
![F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world..."](/pic/317522/600x316/quotation-f-scott-fitzgerald-if-he-had-to-bring-all-the-bitterness-and.jpg)
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed...
E. M. Forster
![Anne Rice quote: "I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to..."](/pic/317470/600x316/quotation-anne-rice-i-dont-like-myself-you-know-i-love-myself-im.jpg)
![Samuel Richardson quote: "By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's..."](/pic/317455/600x316/quotation-samuel-richardson-by-my-soul-i-can-neither-eat-drink-nor.jpg)
![Suzanne Collins quote: "Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true, here..."](/pic/317424/600x316/quotation-suzanne-collins-here-your-dreams-are-sweet-and-tomorrow-brings.jpg)
![Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death..."](/pic/317391/600x316/quotation-alfred-lord-tennyson-sweet-is-true-love-that-is-given-in-vain.jpg)
I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have...
Charles de Lint