“To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”
― Return of the Native
― Return of the Native
“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Armadale
― Armadale
“And empty words are evil.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“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
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