Thomas Hardy, The Return Of The Native Quotes
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.
What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one!
