“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”
E. M. ForsterBy the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E. M. ForsterThe people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. ForsterThe English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. ForsterBeauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
E. M. ForsterHe built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.
E. M. Forster