"Sons and Lovers" Quotes
A young man navigates complex relationships with his mother and multiple lovers, as he grapples with finding his own identity.
classics | 530 pages | Published in 1998
Quotes
You might be either the divine spark or the human brute.
His soul cried out to her, and only to her.
She had a soul like a violin with strings broke-growing blacker and more woeful, but still with music in it.
She saw that he lived in a world beyond her reach, where she could not come
To enjoy, to feed, to wrap over with darkness, to drink delight slowly, and to swallow it.
Passion is a quantity that has no existence.
What a man wants most in his wife, if he has any manhood, is not fire and brilliance, but the warm, palpitating, womanly sort of heart.
He seemed to go on inside her till she strangled with passion.
It was the first time she had ever faced death, her own scarcely more than a child yet.
She couldn't be bothered with them really. She only wanted a connection. A physical passion. She would give romance, but you must give passion.
