A quote from Howards End

Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

. And then I saw, young man, I saw Katerina Ivanovna, in the same silence go up to Sonia’s little bed; she was on her knees all the evening kissing Sonia’s feet, and would not get up, and then they both fell asleep in each other’s arms . . . together, together . . . yes . . . and I . . . lay drunk.”

I knot my hands into his shirt and whisper, “Did you just quote Love, Actually?” “Not intentionally.”

Yet she liked her thoughts: a vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest. Mary had plenty of merriment within.