she tells her love while half asleep

[lotesse]

"We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow."

Miss Honeychurch assented.

"Then make my boy think like us. Make him realize that by the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes."

-A Room With A View, E. M. Forster

Comments

[tiamatschild]

*dreamy sigh* That is the best book to read on a windy, cloudy, autumn afternoon.

[idleleaves]

I need to move this to the top of my to-read list instead of letting it hover somewhere in the middle. What a lovely passage.