Alina

“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad to hear the regular breathing. He softly went nearer to her, and observed that a warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks, and felt that her hanging hand was no longer cold. Then he stood with his back to the fire regarding her, and saw in her almost a divinity.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears...”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“I forgot the defective can be more than the whole”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles