Tess Quotes

• Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Thinking, Apples

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.30, Xist Publishing

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• Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Sound

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.65, Broadview Press

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• Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

  Thomas Hardy

  Tess Of The D Urbervilles, Tricks, Novel

  Thomas Hardy (1892). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”

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• My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Littles, Tess Of The D Urbervilles

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.95, Diversion Books

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Mind, May, Tess Of The D Urbervilles

  Tess of the D'Urbervilles ch. 12 (1891)

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• Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

  Alice Sebold

  Firsts, Conformity, Weirdness

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Aside from John Grisham, there isn't really anybody besides Tess that I've truly gotten into. But, I do like them. When I have more time to read, I will absolutely look for some more authors. It's just about finding a world and a character that you're intrigued by.

  Sasha Alexander

  Character, Looks, World

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• It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

  Thomas Hardy

  Perfect, Humanity, Would Be

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.182, Thomas Hardy

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• Bless thy simplicity, Tess

  Thomas Hardy

  Simplicity, Bless

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.47, Broadview Press

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• It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

  Thomas Hardy

  Beautiful, Sweet, Eye

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy”, p.71, 谷月社

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• I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.

  Kate Atkinson

  Children, Character, Thinking

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

  Jenny Downham

  Bye, Mind, Ifs

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

  Thomas Hardy

  Passion, Structure, Passing

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.113, Diversion Books

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• He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.” “That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Pain, Tired

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.642, Simon and Schuster

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• He frames my face with his hands as he says, "Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me." We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, "Forgive me.

  Claudia Gray

  Kissing, Hands, Forgive Me

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• Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?"-Tess (pg 59)

  Marie Lu

  Crazy, Break, Yeah

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• I'm here, Tess. I'm right here, holding your hand. Adam's here, too, he's sitting on the other side of the bed. And Cal. Mum's on her way, she'll be just a minute. We all love you, Tessa. We're all right here with you.

  Jenny Downham

  Love You, Hands, Bed

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• That was enterprising," Will sounded nearly impressed. Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious look. "Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising' he means 'morally deficient.'" "No, I mean enterprising," said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done'.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Looks, Done

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• I want to kiss you again, Tess.” “Why?” He chuckled, low under his breath. “Why? Because you’re beautiful, and because I want you. And I think you want me too.

  Tina St. John

  Beautiful, Kissing, Thinking

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• she was just…beaming at me, and I thought she’d won the lottery or something, her smile was that big. I asked what happened, and she said…” Park swallowed again. “She said, ‘You’re here.”’ He blinked at Tess. “‘You’re here.’ That’s all it was. That big goofy smile just because I was there. Nobody ever smiled like that at me before.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Parks, Goofy, Her Smile

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Jennifer Crusie Bundle: Getting Rid of Bradley\Strange Bedpersons\What The Lady Wants\Charlie All Night”, p.444, MIRA

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• Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Eye, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.131, Diversion Books

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• Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks, and then there would finally be peace in the world. "Peace in the world," Brigan repeated musingly when Fire told him. "I suppose she's right. That would bring peace to the world. But it's not likely to happen, so I suppose we'll have to keep blundering on and making a mess of it." "Oh," Fire said, "well put. We'll have to pass that on to the governor so he can use it in his speech when they dedicate the new bridge.

  Kristin Cashore

  Rocks, Bridges, Cities

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• Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.

  Thomas Hardy

  Past, Light, Long

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3574, Delphi Classics

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• [...] "I recall what you said to me once," Will went on. "That words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die -

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Men, Together

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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• Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.

  Amelia Gray

  Morning, Sadness, Dating

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