The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
Do you remember Italy?
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.