It is fate that I am here,' persisted George, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.George Emerson
Lying in the sun, in the very heart of a happiness I never dreamed could exist, and we are meant from the nature of things to inhabit different worlds. It isn't my fault, it's not!Lucy Honeychurch
Life, so far as she troubled to conceive it, was a circle of rich, pleasant people, with identical interests and identical foes.E. M. Forster
Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature.E. M. Forster
She joined the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words.E. M. Forster
The desire to love and serve and teach had no outlet. Unhealthy introspection followed.E. M. Forster
Truth counts, and so does beauty, which is a kind of truth.E. M. Forster
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness one comes for life.E. M. Forster
There was no fate that could not be surmounted by scorn.E. M. Forster
It is so difficult-at least, I find it difficult-to understand people who speak the truth.Charlotte Bartlett
I think that you are repeating what you have heard older people say. You are pretending to be touchy; but you are not really. Stop being so tiresome, and tell me instead what part of the church you want to see. To take you to it will be a real pleasure.Lucy Honeychurch