“Then Stephen must tell her the cruel truth, she must say: ‘I am one of those whom God marked on the forehead. Like Cain, I am marked and blemished. If you come to me, Mary, the world will abhor you,… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
“this thing seems more dreadful than anything else that has ever happened, more utterly dreadful — but you’ll find that it will pass and… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit. — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
“Stephen, why are you shivering?' 'I don't know, my darling.' 'Mary, why are you crying?' 'I don't know, Stephen.' p424” — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
“Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation – one point of light. The most perfect… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light. — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408) — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share
“There is something that mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
“To her it seemed an inevitable thing as much a part of herself as her breathing; and yet it appeared transcendent of self, and… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful. — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
“But her mother had looked at her curiously, gravely, puzzled by this creature who seemed all contradictions - at one moment so hard, at another so gentle, gentle to tenderness, even. Anna had been stirred, as her child had been stirred, by the breath of the meadowsweet under the hedges; for in this they were one, the mother and daughter,… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share
“The world would condemn but they would rejoice; glorious outcasts, unashamed, triumphant!” — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
