“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“... and someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whispered, 'Sir, was you calling out for me?… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“... I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“And the triviality faded from their faces, though it left something behind -- the knowledge that they could never be parted because… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love--a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“It all turns on affection now," said Margaret. "Affection. Don't you see?... And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“What had spoken to her in that scoured-out cavity of the granite? What dwelt in the first of the caves? Something very… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently.… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Whom does Love concern beyond the beloved and the lover? Yet his impact deluges a hundred shores.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“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… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Oh, what's the use of your fairmindedness if you never decide for yourself? Anyone gets hold of you and makes you do what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“You mean that a Frenchman could share with a friend and yet not go to prison?’ ‘Share? Do you mean unite? If both are… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from the very… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,' she said. 'This craze for motion has only set in… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
