💬 Quotes

"There’s something about a small town that makes you want to crawl into a hole and pull the hole in after you."

"I’m a sick man. I’m a man who’s been sick a long, long time, and I’m a man who’s going to get sicker before he gets well."

"People are like leaves. They’re all different, and yet they’re all the same. They wither and blow away, and they leave nothing behind but a little dust."

"You can’t keep a secret from yourself. You can keep it from the world, but you can’t keep it from your own mind."

"I don't think there's any such thing as a good person or a bad person. Just people, and what they do."

"I’m a man who’s been a killer for a long time, and I’m a man who’s going to be a killer until the end of time."

"Beauty to him was less a quality of the woman herself than a function of the sense of the observer."

"The woman pays."

"Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess."

"It was then that she first felt the irresistible need of someone to lean on, and she thought of Angel Clare."

"I am not a d'Urberville, but a Durbeyfield."

"Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?"

"He was beaten, but he was not broken."

"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew."

"He was mastered by the sheer intimacy of the wild, and he was filled with a great, strange longing."

"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise."

"Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth."

"He had done no wrong, but he had been treated as a criminal, and he had learned that the world was a place of force."

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."

"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love."