A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

"It is so difficult--at least, I find it difficult--to understand people who speak the truth." "There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it." "The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected." "At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards." "But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and--which he held more precious--it gave her shadow." "It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal." I had to leave out four more quotes I highlighted so as not to overdo. This was a really fun read. The heroine (who lives in England) was discovering who she was with the help of a trip to Italy. Watching her mature from an ingenue to a woman sure of her self and her personal ideals was a great road trip. Written in 1908, there are social mores that were beginning to change and Lucy was one who urged those changes along. Now I want to see the movie again!  It's a great love story.  I'm happy to have my Kindle because I often looked up words I didn't know with the dictionary!  If you like Jane Austen, you'll like this, too.