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"I was tired of her getting away with being so young."

"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."

"Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river."

"You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them."

"I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope."

"She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."

"I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop."

"Lonely was much better than alone."
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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."


"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."


"She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct."


"It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be called-- were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should be as cold-blooded as a fish and as selfish as a pig to have a really good chance of being one of his country's worthies. You may ridicule me--I am quite willing that you should-- I am a fit subject, no doubt. But I think if you knew what I have gone through these last few years you would rather pity me. And if they knew"--he nodded towards the college at which the dons were severally arriving--"it is just possible they would do the same."


"On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute save for one prophetic bird, who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence, as if equally convinced that he is mistaken."


"A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away."
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