It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air. - E. M. Forster

And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride permitted her to mate, and had lived on unwed, her age now thirty, and would die unwed, for no one would have her now.

The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.