Marriage

Then there were these moments of grace when she startled herself with the idea that if anybody truly understood what is signified by the word ‘person’, they would consider twelve lifetimes too brief a spell in which to love a single soul.

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The Fraud

Zadie Smith

This act of masculine clumsiness was the spear through the side of her love for Morel.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers

As Mrs. Morel saw him slink quickly through the inner doorway, holding his bundle, she laughed to herself: but her heart was bitter, because she had loved him.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers

Neither knew that she was more tolerant because she loved him less.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence • Sons and Lovers

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