“Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
― M Is for Magic
― M Is for Magic
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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“You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
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