Selene

“He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“I don't know. I've come to tell you what I did.' Yes, that was the reason of his visit. It was the closing of a book that would never be read again, and better close such a book than leave it lying about to get dirtied. The volume of their past must be restored to its shelf, and here, here was the place, amid darkness and perishing flowers. He owed it to Alec also. He could suffer no mixing of the old with the new. All compromise was perilous, because furtive, and, having finished his confession, he must disappear from the world that had brought him up.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice