Bianca

“Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life.”
― Thomas Hardy

“But no one came. Because no one ever does.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“It was clear now: nobody would get to be made brand new.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain