in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

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

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

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

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

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.