Shan

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“You confuse what's important with what's impressive.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice