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

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.

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.

Her suspense was terrible.

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.

When two people fight, they think less and speak more. They don’t listen to the opponent. They draw their own conclusions.

Though Love be deeper Friendship is more wide.

Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.

How about not equating death with stopping?

I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!