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feel that, however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations.

The awful catastrophe of their quarrel had evaporated in a commonplace. He

The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and - and to love in return.

through all the monotony and the splendor of life.

I'm afraid they would droop. See, they're drooping already. Bluebells are like that.

I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.

His parents should be here soon. I shall feel happier when they are able to take the responsibility.

once had been. The

Love is not a possession to hoard. You give it away. It's a blessing and a balm.

He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.

ahead in the soft and sighing darkness

stopped, gasping at the air. The nail turned

Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.

...in the best society hardly anyone can be certain who their father is.

When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.

Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

we can't alter the world, we can only adapt ourselves to it.

...are not all women treated by all men like something inferior, like chattels you take up and put down at will?

time to overcome her distrust of the

If you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.

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Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

I wish your husband well and hope he'll come home again to domestic bliss.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

Refreshment is the remedy for all manner of embarrassments.

I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.

Ross took a deep breath of the air, which was heavy with the smell of sea. He fancied he could hear the waves breaking.

their stay when it was to take place with full formality.

Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.

No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't desire....But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't get.

Perhaps you're right; we don't ever regain what we lightly lose.

inclined his head and moved off slowly across the beach. Tbe captain

Life is like--like one of those hobby-horses you ride at a fair--round and round you go enjoying every moment and then the--then the music stops...

Children in their youth blossomed and bloomed; then chance, inclination, heredity all played their part

In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

In order to destroy this system which we so much detest we are creating conditions over here which run contrary to our dearest p-principles.

If there are two feelings, then I don't think you can put them in separate compartments ever, because one is a part of the other and inseparable.

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days. The

The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so.

The waves were shadows, snakes under a quilt, creeping in almost unseen until they emerged in milky ripples at the water's edge.

I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.

Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.

Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.' Ross

No bal maidens or spallers

Her shadow kept her company along the corridor to her bedroom, preceding her like a welcoming innkeeper.

A nice frame doesn't make a nice picture.

Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.

...Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order." He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.

For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.

Blemishes on the beauty of a person one loves are like grace notes adding something to a piece of music.

It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan.

I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.

Men's tongues in some things outrun women's.

Names are important. They have to be neither too ordinary nor too queer, just a name, like a face, that'll go along with the crowd.

People who brag of their ancestors are like root vegetables. All their importance is underground.

Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.

Mellingey Stream

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

down. Below this the water was

Lazy in everything," said Ross, "but the search for excuses. Like two old pigs in their sty and as slow to move from their own patch of filth." Prudie

much in it,' said Paul, pushing the broadsheet across. 'You don't ask me

showed where the ancient pewter teapot had leaked. At the other end was a scattering of crumbs left by the

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...

Tedn't law. Tedn't right. Tedn't just. Tedn't sense. Tedn't friendly.