you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.