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“Be excellent to each other.”
― Bill S. Preston Esquire

“He would not deceive himself so much. He would not – and this was the test – pretend to care about women when the only sex that attracted him was his own. He loved men and always had loved them. He longed to embrace them and mingle his being with theirs. Now that the man who returned his love had been lost, he admitted this.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Now he was dying. A past of questionable honesty had faded and he looked forward to joining those he loved and to be joined in due season by those whom he left behind.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice