“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”

“You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.”

“Why should we faint, and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has will’d, we die?”

“Done because we are too many.”

“Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or or in our friends...”

“We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.”

“Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?”