"Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness."
- Thomas Hardy
"At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almo..."
"I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't ..."
"Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love hi..."
"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."
"So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky."
"Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was ..."
"That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!"
"You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all."
"If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained."