Justine

“Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain
Clings cruelly to us.”
― JOHN KEATS