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"This is Forster's last chance to impress me. I genuinely want to love his work, but I didn't like A Room With a View much, and DNF-ed Maurice." — Feb 08, 2026 04:04AM
"This is Forster's last chance to impress me. I genuinely want to love his work, but I didn't like A Room With a View much, and DNF-ed Maurice." — Feb 08, 2026 04:04AM
“That which does not kill us,” I said, “has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.”
― Broken Homes
― Broken Homes
“I listened and let it soothe me, that ceaseless ebb and flow, the crash of the breaking waves, the grating sigh of its retreat. It was like lying on the chest of somebody who loves you, somebody you know you can trust—though the sea loves nobody and can never be trusted. I was immediately aware of a new desire, to be part of it, to dissolve into it: the sea that feels nothing and can never be hurt.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who were shy, who imagined that passion and tenderness were two things separate from one another, and not the one, gloriously intermingled, so that to be fierce was also to be gentle, so that silence was a speaking without words.”
― Frenchman's Creek
― Frenchman's Creek
“Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.”
― Midnight Riot
― Midnight Riot
“The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.”
― Parade's End
― Parade's End
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