Maurice (E.M. Forster)

I was raised in a world that demanded silence, but I found my voice in the most forbidden of places — in the truth of my heart. At Cambridge, I glimpsed what might be possible, only to be cast adrift when the person I loved turned away. But then came Alec. He was everything they warned me against — working-class, brash, unapologetically real. And in him, I found a future no one had written for me. I made my choice. I waited at the boathouse. I chose love, and in doing so, I chose myself.