“You simply can’t throw strangers together at random and expect the fiery, quick romance to turn into love. Love has its own rules and enforces them rigidly.”
Gray Flannel Armor (p. 9)
Short fiction, Notions: Unlimited (1960)
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“these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
What will you answer? "We all dwell together
To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"?
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate
“Love is like the glass,
That throws its own rich colour over all,
And makes all beautiful.”
Roland's Tower
The Improvisatrice (1824)
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
Widely attributed on the Internet to John Ruskin; see this Google search https://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=%2B%22When+love+and+skill+work+together%2C+expect+a+masterpiece.%22+%2B%22John+Ruskin%22+-%22Charles+Reade%22&oq=%2B%22When+love+and+skill+work+together%2C+expect+a+masterpiece.%22+%2B%22John+Ruskin%22+-%22Charles+Reade%22&gs_l=serp.12...143064.148395.0.150598.2.2.0.0.0.0.108.196.1j1.2.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..0.0.0.JURsIFvRl34 for thousands of pages containing the quote AND "John Ruskin" but NOT "Charles Reade".
This is actually from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade.
Misattributed
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
Source: Put Yourself in His Place (1870), CHAPTER V