“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“zenzizenzizenzic”
― Small Kindnesses
― Small Kindnesses
“But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become”
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“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
“There comes a time in every man’s life,” he’d said in the halting, ghostly voice his stroke had left him, “when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.”
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
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