Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.