Eliza

“Stupors, however, do not last forever”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“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. But since a woman can’t show off in that way by herself, I shan’t marry—at least not yet.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd