alice’s Reviews > Tess of the D'Urbervilles > Status Update

“Inside this exterior, over which the eye might have roved as over a thing scarcely percipient, almost inorganic, there was the record of a pulsing life which had learnt too well, for its years, of the dust and ashes of things, of the cruelty of lust and the fragility of love.”

Of course
😢

"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