Selene

“O for the night that was ending, for the sleep and the wakefulness, the toughness and tenderness mixed, the sweet temper, the safety in darkness. Would such a night ever return?”
― E M Forster, Maurice

“A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gripped, it feels acutely, and its sensations in love are particularly profound. Given time, it can know and impart ecstasy; given time, it can sink to the heart of Hell.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“By God, if you'd split on me to Mr Ducie, I'd have broken you. It might have cost me hundreds, but I've got them, and the police always back my sort against yours. You don't know. We'd have got you into quod, for blackmail, after which — I'd have blown out my brains.'
'Killed yourself? Death?'
'I should have known by that time that I loved you. Too late . . . everything's always too late.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“It's a risk, so's everything else, and we'll only live once.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice