“This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
― A Room With A View
― A Room With A View
“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
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