But no one came. Because no one ever does.Jude
Done because we are too many.Jude
Nobody did me any harm, did they? And what right had I to come home here and ruin you?Sue Bridehead
We are horribly sensitive; that's really what's the matter with us, Sue.Jude
There is only one who understands you. And he drags at you with guilt and yearning!Jude
It would have been cruel to injure him, and I didn't want to, particularly. But I did deceive him and lead him on, and that makes me bad, I suppose?Sue Bridehead
How could I be expected to know that what I was holding out for would turn out to be my destiny too?Sue Bridehead
There is a deadly canker amongst us, and it is called indifference.Thomas Hardy
You know what a woman's curiosity is, Jude. Almost as bad as a man's!Sue Bridehead
You have never loved me as I love you—never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart—your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite - not a woman!Jude
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.Thomas Hardy
I have been thinking, he began, not looking at her; 'A man should be able to do that. It would be a great thing for men. And women - a great thing for them also.'Jude
I may do some good before my day is done yet - wait and see!Sue Bridehead
'Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.'Thomas Hardy
So many... Our lives... driven... by the heedless impulsion! Life is a training school.Sue Bridehead