Tess Of The D'urberville Quotes

#1. O, you have torn my life all to pieces ... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Thomas Hardy

#2. Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.

Thomas Hardy

#3. She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.

Tess Thompson

#4. When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

Tess Gallagher

#5. Strider hovered over the scope and slammed his eye on it before jumping back with a hand over the squinting eye. That bloody thing is dangerous.

Tess Oliver

#6. Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

Thomas Hardy

#7. No one would ever find Tess Snow again. She no longer existed. I am Ami Esclave.

Pepper Winters

#8. I believe one has to get one's hand dirty or you're nothing but a hobbyist.

Tess Gerritsen

#9. Tie me, tease me, let your pleasure please me. Hurt me, love me, but please don't ever leave me ...

Pepper Winters

#10. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.

Tess Gerritsen

#11. Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?

Tess Gerritsen

#12. I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction.

Tess Gerritsen

#13. Tess," I say. "I'm going to head down to the water.I'll be back in a minute."
"You sure you can make it by yourself?" she asks.
"I'll be fine." I smile. "If you see me floating unconscious out to sea,though-by all means,come and get me.

Marie Lu

#14. I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I've been using them throughout my career, but they've never taken center stage, they've never been really powerful, they've never expressed some of the experiences I had growing up in the U.S. Johnny Tam is the first one.

Tess Gerritsen

#15. The past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.

Tess Gallagher

#16. Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.

Tess Gerritsen

#17. My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I'm always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books.

Tess Gerritsen

#18. Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the 'city of eternal spring' where she was born. In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings, and the weather is always perfect.

Tess Gerritsen

#19. Because I'd rather fell guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear - Tess's Mother

Rosamund Lupton

#20. But death wouldn't deter her killer. It would whet his appetite. He'd look at her corpse and see only an object of desire. Someone he can control. She doesn't resist him. She is cool, passive flesh, yielding to any and all indignities. She is the perfect lover. The

Tess Gerritsen

#21. During the last few hours of the trip, he and Tess had drilled procedures and done a whole lot of worst-case-scenario type war-gaming. He was now as convinced as he'd ever be that she knew what to do and where to go if Godzilla attacked Kazabek ...

Suzanne Brockmann

#22. And I never wanted her to be scared of me, or scared of anything again. She'd already lived through the worst life had to offer. She'd earned that right, the right to never be terrified again. Let's

Tess Oliver

#23. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or I Capture the Castle. Those books are like old friends. When

Gabrielle Zevin

#24. And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.

Thomas Hardy

#25. What about fateful turns in your life? Naturalists like Thomas Hardy proposed that some people are simply born under 'a blighted star' like his heroine in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. If so, then no matter what we did, we couldn't improve our lives.

Roger Leslie

#26. The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

Bartlett Sher

#27. That's what I imagined, a giant game park with comfortable lodges and roads. At a minimum, roads. According to the website, there'd be "bush camping" involved, but I pictured lovely big tents with showers and flush toilets. I didn't think I'd be paying for the privilege of squatting in the bushes.

Tess Gerritsen

#28. Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

Thomas Hardy

#29. Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!

Thomas Hardy

#30. You temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.

Thomas Hardy

#31. Find depressing his determination to make his characters suffer even when a little common sense on both his part and theirs could avoid it. Tess is one of the most irritating young women in Victorian fiction. Won

P.D. James

#32. It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.

Tess Gallagher

#33. Nathaniel Strider could never love. He's obviously discovered early on that girls' hearts were vulnerable and all a lad needed was a penetrating gaze and a disarming smile and the world was at his feet.

Tess Oliver

#34. God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

Tess Gerritsen

#35. You're not the kind of girl a guy wants to be friends with, you're the kind of girl he wants to give his heart to.

Tess Oliver

#36. Don't you dare hide behind your illness!"
"You were the one who just said I couldn't help it!"
"You can't help being ill, but you can help what you do about it," Eithne says sharply.

Tess Stimson

#37. Tess and Clare unconsciously studied each other, ever balanced on the edge of a passion, yet apparently keeping out of it. All the while they were converging, under an irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale.

Thomas Hardy

#38. My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

Tess Gerritsen

#39. Your thigh? Your shoulder? Is there any part of you that hasn't been hurt yet?"
He seemed to be contemplating my question for a moment and then he nodded. He tapped his chest. "Yeah, my heart." He looked over at me. "But its feeling mighty vulnerable these days, so who knows.

Tess Oliver

#40. My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

Tess Henley

#41. sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in

Laura Lippman

#42. It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.

Tess Gerritsen

#43. I know there's evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don't need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

Tess Gerritsen

#44. The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

Tess Gerritsen

#45. I'd kill for you, Tess. I have killed for you. Don't undermine me by fearing others. Fear me. Let me rule you!

Pepper Winters

#46. With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.

Tess Gerritsen

#47. meat comes from the supermarket, where it's wrapped in plastic. No guts involved.

Tess Gerritsen

#48. I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it's a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page, and I wait to see what they do and say while I'm writing them.

Tess Gerritsen

#49. We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.

Tess Gerritsen

#50. I like you, Tess.

C.J. Duggan

#51. Tess focuses on Cyclops's placid, one-eyes face. He lost one of his black button eyes year ago, but she wouldn't let Mrs. O'Hare replace it. She said it made him more interesting, and changed his name from Barnabus.

Jessica Spotswood

#52. He had a son, but he died some years ago, on a foreign trip. His ex-wife's dead, too, and I've never seen any woman there." Nora shook her head. "It's an awful thing to think about. Dead for four days and no one even notices. That's how unconnected he seemed to be.

Tess Gerritsen

#53. I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers
are despised.

Tess Gerritsen

#54. I want to kiss you again, Tess."
"Why?"
He chuckled, low under his breath. "Why? Because you're beautiful, and because I want you. And I think you want me too.

Lara Adrian

#55. Aren't there different electrical outlets here? And what about money? And isn't it-"
"Relax, Tess," Taylor told me. "I have everything covered.

Embee

#56. I think what medical training does is it gives you the language, the tools to look up facts. I think medical training gives you a sense of how to approach a problem, how to look at symptoms and go down the list of what it might be.

Tess Gerritsen

#57. His arms held me like a vice, and I wondered if he would crush the life from me, and it occurred to me that I didn't care as long as I died in his arms ...

Tess Oliver

#58. I've just confirmed every bad joke ever told about second violin players. Question: How many second violinists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: They can't go that high. Gerda

Tess Gerritsen

#59. Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

Tess Gerritsen

#60. But my heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.

Tess Sharpe

#61. Having you around is like having a piece of the North star break off and drop to earth.

Tess Oliver

#62. Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles

Tess Gerritsen