The Fox / The Captain's Doll / The Ladybird Quotes

“Poor March, in her good-will and her responsibility, she had strained herself till it seemed to her that the whole of life and everything was only a horrible abyss of nothingness. The more you reached after the fatal flower of happiness, which trembles so blue and lovely in a crevice just beyond your grasp, the more fearfully you became aware of the ghastly and awful gulf of the precipice below you, into which you will inevitably plunge, as into the bottomless pit, if you reach any farther. You pluck flower after flower--it is never the flower. The flower itself--its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Fox/The Captain's Doll/The Ladybird

“You say, Don't you bother about me, and then all the while you feel injured because nobody thinks of you.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Fox/The Captain's Doll/The Ladybird