Her suspense was terrible.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

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

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

Life is a journey without destination but it unfolds our conscious and subconscious expectations.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

Oh my God!” Sam said again, his voice shaking. I’ve given birth to something inhuman, Phoebe thought. A lamprey with row after row of teeth.

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

Jeb Bush is conservative governor,his record as governor is more conservative than any current republican governor in the country.

If politicians would think more they would act less.

He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.