Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
E. M. ForsterSometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
E. M. ForsterBy the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E. M. ForsterIt is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?
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