Nicole

“There are occasions when girls like Bathsheba will put up with a great deal of unconventional behavior. When they want to be praised, which is often; when they want to be mastered, which is sometimes; and when they want no nonsense, which is seldom.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.”
― 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