tochefaruz 's review for:

Maurice by E.M. Forster

4.25

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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“You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.”

What an honest portrayal of life as a queer person. It's hard to understand oneself and our desires, more so to act upon them knowing you'd only self loathe after. Maurice was incredibly relatable as a character, it was beautiful to see him endure his own internalized homophobia, how he hoped for his own happiness and eventually chased it for it himself risking his status in the process. It takes courage to act as he did the last third of the novel, I'd honestly gone mad with so much uncertainty. A happy ending is all I wanted for him.