Transmute and Muddle

[eternally-emily]

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 ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

Lucy Honeychurch, A Room with a View (via emmyinthesky)

[prettyinpinkness]

[jaegerjaques]

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm - yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

E.M. Forster, A Room with a View (via jaegerjaques)

[ofcuriousdesign]

Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (via ofcuriousdesign)

[oceanofcrystals-deactivated2023]

"It would seem that the whole earth lay before them, not as a map, but as a chess board, whereon they continually behold the changing pieces as well as the squares. Any one can find places, but the finding of people is a gift from God.

E. M. Forster, A Room with a View  (via oceanofcrystals)

[literarynerd]

[eatacrocodile]

[turibulum]

A Room with a View (1985)

[michelexleblanc]

Helena Bonham Carter in A Room With a View (1985), dir. James Ivory 

[sassy-little-lupus]

Young Rupert in “A room with a view.”

[introspectivepoet]

“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

E.M. Forster, A Room with a View (via introspectivepoet)