“Masses of work awaited him. Nothing had changed in his life. Nothing remained in it. He was back with his loneliness as it had been before Clive, as it was after Clive, and would now be for ever. He had failed, and that wasn't the saddest: he had seen Alec fail. In a way they were one person. Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.”

RIP Clive you should’ve listened to “good luck babe!” Because that’s exactly the life you ended up with babe. I feel bad for you broski because my ass was lowkey rooting for you and Maurice but noooo you have to go and convince yourself you’ve been “cured” and then you made Maurice freak out for like the rest of the book until bro was like “well, I guess I’m not even gonna like girls. Might as well give this fellow named Alec a shot.” Then they fell in love happily ever after. Clive you are my enemy, because my ass cannot tell if you actually like Anne that way or no, but for the sake of my sanity I’m going to go with the fact that I could treat her much better than you.
Now Maurice you poor poor human. I love you as much as I want to smack the shit out of you. I’m leaving that there.
I would rate this higher however I found myself pretty bored with the books after Clive decided he wasn’t going to be attracted to men anymore