When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is … - E. M. Forster

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

[Before the prostate operation] I feel gay and calm, but have an open mind as to whether I shall get through or not[.] I don't say this to anyone else, but I love you too much to say anything but the truth. I don't feel afraid of anything and it is your love that has made me be like this. I hope to come back to you and everything and be as before, and I will try my best to do so.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.