...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her.
Ford Madox FordIt was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.
Ford Madox FordAnd it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.
Ford Madox FordIf you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.
Ford Madox FordI know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
Ford Madox FordMind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness.
Ford Madox Ford