Can you feel the love tonight? It is supposed to be a romantic night of Qi Xi, also known as Chinese Valentine's Day. I found a paragraph for tonight from the book I have been reading, mostly during my commute on Taipei MRT.

There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.

Page 15, The Gathering by Anne Enright
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2007