“Then as he began to move, in the sudden helpless orgasm, there awoke in her new strange thrills rippling inside her. Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite and melting her all molten inside. It was like bells rippling up and up to a culmination. She lay unconscious of the wild little cries she uttered at the last.”
More from D. H. Lawrence
“We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
“Nothing matters. Everything happens.”
“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
“Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.”