Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

E.M. Forster

Stichwörter: reading books education learning scholorship



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There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .

E.M. Forster

Stichwörter: love hope



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There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.  

E.M. Forster


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George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her.
Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

E.M. Forster

Stichwörter: romance annoyance heart-warming



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Live in fragments no longer, only connect.

E.M. Forster

Stichwörter: howards-end



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Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a grey, bloodless place were it composed entirely of Miss Schlegels. But the world being what it is, perhaps they shine out in it like stars.

E.M. Forster


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There were letters for her at the bureau-one from her brother, full of athletics and biology; one from her mother, delightful as only mother's letters could be. She had read in it of the crocuses which had been bought for yellow and were coming up puce, of the new parlour-maid, who had watered the ferns with essence of lemonade...

E.M. Forster


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As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

E.M. Forster

Stichwörter: travel



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But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

E.M. Forster


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At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.

E.M. Forster

Stichwörter: homosexuality maurice-novel



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