“By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”
― A Passage to India
― A Passage to India
“I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.”
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“I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”
― A Room With a View
― A Room With a View
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