Alisha

“That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

“If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.”
― Jayne Anne Phillips

“He felt that she wanted the soul out of his body and not him. All his strength and energy she drew into herself through some channel which united them. She did not want to meet him so that there were two of them man and woman together. She wanted to draw all of him into her. It urged him to an intensity like madness which fascinated him as drug-taking might. He was discussing Michael Angelo. It felt to her as if she were fingering the very quivering tissue the very protoplasm of life as she heard him. It gave her deepest satisfaction. And in the end it frightened her. There he lay in the white intensity of his search and his voice gradually filled her with fear so level it was almost inhuman as if in a trance.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

“She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers