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If something did not love you you would not be here.
— Cormac McCarthy
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
— Craig Groeschel
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.
— DH Lawrence
The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love. The only unfortunate thing was that men lagged so behind women in the matter. They insisted on the sex thing like dogs.
— DH Lawrence
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
— DH Lawrence
Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.
— DH Lawrence
So they won't be able to blow out my wanting you, nor the little glow there is between you and me. We'll be together next year. And though I'm frightened, I believe in your being with me.
— DH Lawrence
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies-thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
— DH Lawrence
Lemon trees, like Italians, seem to be happiest when they are touching one another
— DH Lawrence
She felt different from the rest of them, with their hard, easy, shallow intimacy, that seemed to cost them so little.
— DH Lawrence
Sometimes a good husband came along with his family, peacefully. But usually the women and children were alone.
— DH Lawrence
Do you think one can only care once?' she asked. 'Or never. Most women never care, never begin to. They don't know what it means. Nor men either. But when I see a woman as cares, my heart stands still for her.
— DH Lawrence