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“The daylight has nothing to show me, since you are not here, and I don't like to see the rooks and starlings in the fields, because I grieve and grieve to miss you who used to see them with me. I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save me from what threatens me! - Your faithful heartbroken”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“(...) he turned to go his own way, and hardly knew he loved her still.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles