Some folk want their luck buttered.

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

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

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak