Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not t... - E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most."

"The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not."