“there’s lots of good fish in the sea … maybe … but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.” - lady chatterley’s lover, dh lawrence
(via scribbles-and-wanderlust)
“sleep is still most perfect … when it is shared with a beloved. the warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the couch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.” - sons and lovers, dh lawrence
(via thisisquitelovely)
“perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe … the others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.” - lady chatterley’s lover, dh lawrence
“she was silent. logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.” - lady chatterley’s lover, dh lawrence
“well, so many words, because i can’t touch you. if i could sleep with my arms round you, the ink could stay in the bottle.” - lady chatterley’s lover, dh lawrence
(via vaere)
“but his eyes smiled at her, and she felt at home with him. there it was, suddenly, the tension of keeping up her appearances fell from her. something flowed out of him physically, that made her feel inwardly at ease and happy, at home.” - lady chatterly’s lover, dh lawrence
“connie never really understood him, but, in her way, she loved him. and all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. she couldn’t quite, quite love in hopelessness. and he, being hopeless, couldn’t ever quite love at all.” - lady chatterly’s lover, dh lawrence
“we’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.” - lady chatterly’s lover, dh lawrence
