“When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.”

“Throughout their friendship Deronda had been used to Hans' egotism, but he had never before felt intolerant of it: when Hans, habitually pouring out his own feelings and affairs, had never cared for any detail in return, and, if he chanced to know any, had soon forgotten it”

“When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.”

“I've never felt the way I felt when you left, Anastasia. I would move heaven and earth to avoid feeling like that again.”

“He felt a momentary pang of regret that he had not spent more time with his beloved wife. But it passed when he remembered that the reason he’d gone to sea in the first place was that he had never really liked his beloved wife.”

“She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.”