Lara

“It was the central thing; it was the way you understood yourself; if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. Everyone knew that. Falling”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism

“Thus, neither having the clue to the other’s secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other’s character and moods without attempting to pry into each other’s history.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End