Romance Quote by E.M. Forster — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.”

“Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.”

“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.”

“One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life!”

“Eccolo!” he exclaimed.”

“We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.”

“Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.”

“If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.”

“Your poetry--it doesn't deserve to be locked away, hidden from the rest of the world. And neither do you.”

“Only time will tell, as our memories fade into a past that isn’t meant to be a part of the future. Eventually, we have to find a way to let them go, to move forward and accept what’s to come.”

“Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives.”

“I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. "More than I ever--" He broke off. "God. More than I probably should. You know that, don't you?”