Philippa Penn

“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
-Gabriel Oak”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness,”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd