- "Her hand touched his, owing to a jolt, and one of the thrills so frequent in the animal kingdom passed between them, and announced that their difficulties were only a lovers' quarrel."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 8 - "And when the whole world behaves as such, there will be no more purdah?"
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 11 - "But he [Aziz] himself was rooted in society and Islam. He belonged to a tradition, which bound him, and he had brought children into the world, the society of the future. Though he lived so vaguely in this flimsy bungalow, nevertheless he was placed, placed."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 11 - "All the love he felt for her at the Mosque welled up again, the fresher for forgetfulness."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 13 - "You keep your religion, I mine. That is best. Nothing embraces the whole of India, nothing, nothing and that was Akbar's mistake."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 14 - "But suddenly, at the edge of her mind, Religion appeared, poor little talkative Christianity, and she knew that all its divine words from 'Let there be light' to 'It is finished' only amounted to 'boum.'"
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 14 - "'I have had twenty five years experience of this country'--and twenty five years seemed to fill the waiting room with their staleness and ungeneroisity--'and during those twenty five years, I have never known anything but disaster result when English people and Indians attempt to be intimate socially.'"
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 17 - "They are not to blame, they have not a dog's chance--we should be like them if we settled here."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 18 - "They had started speaking of women and children, that phrase that exempts the male from sanity when it has been repeated a few times."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 20 - "But every humane act in the East is tainted with officialism, and while honoring him they condemned Aziz and India."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 20 - "The sound had spouted after her when she escaped, and was going on still like a river that gradually floods the plain. Only Mrs. Moore could drive it back to its source and seal the broken reservoir. Evil was loose...she could hear it entering the lives of others."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 22 - "Her Christian tenderness had gone, or had developed into hardness, a just irritation against the human race; she had taken no interest at the arrest, asked scarcely any questions, and had refused to leave her bed on one awful last night of Mohurram, when an attack was expected on the bungalow."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 22 - "As soon as she landed in India, it seemed to her good, and when she saw the water flowing through the mosque tank, or the Ganges, or the moon caught in the shawl of night with all the other stars, it seemed a beautiful goal and an easy one."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 23 - "by what right did they claim so much importance in the world and assume the title of civilization?"
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 24 - "Ronny's religion was of the sterilized Public School brand, which never goes bad, even in the tropics. Wherever he entered, mosque, cave or temple, he retained the spiritual outlook of the fifth form, and condemned as 'weakening' any attempt to understand them."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 28 - "The poem for Mr. Bhattacharya never got written, but it had an effect. It led him towards the vague and bulky figure of a mother-land. He was without natural affection for the land of his birth, but the Marabar Hills drove him to it. Half closing his eyes, he attempted to love India."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 30 - "Suspicion in the Oriental is a sort of malignant tumor, a mental malady, that makes him self-conscious and unfriendly suddenly; he trusts and mistrusts at the same time in a way the Westerner can not comprehend. It is his demon, as the Westerner's is hypocrisy."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 32 - "Thus Godbole, though she was not important to him, remembered an old woman he had met in Chandrapore days. Chance brought her into his mind while it was in this heated state, he did not select her, she happened to occur among the throng of soliciting images, a tiny splinter, and he impelled her by his spiritual force to that place where completeness can be found."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 33 - "My heart is for my own people henceforward."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 35 - "Then you are an Oriental."
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 36 - "But the horses didn't want it-they swerved apart; the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices, 'No, not yet,' and the sky said, 'No, not there.'"
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, Ch. 37
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