A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster

It is so difficult—at least, I find it difficult—to understand people who speak the truth.”

Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

“I don’t play tennis—at least, not in public. The neighbourhood is deprived of the romance of me being athletic.

“I haven’t met them but I should say they were a highly unsuitable addition to the neighbourhood.”

I’m quite uneasy at being always right so often.”

Please do not put ‘Private’ outside your envelope again. No one opens my letters.

No one would dream of opening my letters except if they were marked private.

“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”

Sounds like Henry David Thoreau

“Cecil has a very high standard for people,”

I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”

I have just used you as a peg for my silly notions of what a woman should be.