"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.”

Man, what a beautiful book. I had seen the film adaptation years ago and always had it in mind to read the book and I'm so glad I did. Forsters' prose is lovely and his characters are beautifully complex. The story takes it's time to develop and there's a lot of thought and prose which can sometimes feel hard to get through, but I honestly really enjoyed reading it- partly due to just recently visiting England and especially London, where much of the story takes place. It was fun to read of them jumping on the trains at Kings Cross and Paddington, imagining what life in early 20th Century England must have been like. I might have to put some of Forsters' other works on my list.