The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossibl... - E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them."

"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."