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"There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness, he was all that goodness could be-- knew all that a guide, philosopher, and friend should know."

"She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils. The moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation."

Hardy's diction is addictive

"The gray half-tones of daybreak are not the gray half-tones of the day's close, though the degree of their shade may be the same. In the twilight of the morning light seems active, darkness passive; in the twilight of evening, it is the darkness which is active and crescent, and the light is the drowsy reverse."

My English teacher told me I could read during breaks as I did the ACT yesterday, but he lied 3

“The girl’s whispered words mingled with the shades, and, to Tess’s drowsy mind, they seemed to be generated by the darkness in which they floated.”

Tess is such a loveable character

Tess is such a lovable character

Bantam Classics look so nice on the outside
But the print size is criminally tiny...

"She thought, without exactly wording the thought, how strange and godlike was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had felt at first, a girl like her who had never heard of his name, and never would have a clue to his personality."