Nothing good gets away

"if you are in love – that’s a good thing – that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you . . . the object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it. And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."

Author JOHN STEINBECK's advice to his son Thom in 1958, when the teenage boy wrote to say he had fallen desperately in love with a girl named Susan while at boarding school.