"I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about… — E.M. Forster

"I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining for ever- and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?"

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