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“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more emphatic than speech.”

“To whom her face was as the uncertain glory of an April day”

Obsessed with this line

“His equilibrium disturbed, he was in extremity at once.
Boldwood was thus either hot or cold. If an emotion possessed him at all, it ruled him: a feeling not mastering him was entirely latent. Stagnant or rapid it was never slow. He was always hit mortally, or he was missed.”

“Boldwood's blindness to the difference between approving of what circumstance suggests, and originating what it does not, was well matched by Bathsheba's insensibility to the possibly great issues of little beginnings.”

“the disturber of his dreams entered and became visible to him. Adam had awakened from his deep sleep, and behold, there was Eve.' The farmer took courage, and for the first time really looked at her.”

“as big a betrayer as Joey Iscariot himself.”

Well that’s a new one lol

“the frost had hardened and glazed the surface of the snow till it shone in the red eastern light with the polish of marble, and how the footprints of a few birds, which had hopped over the snow whilst it lay in the state of a soft fleece, were now frozen to a short permanency.”

Beautiful! Also noticing many red things so far

“So very idly and unreflectingly was this deed done. Of love, as a spectacle Bathsheba had a fair knowledge; but of love subjectively she knew nothing.”

So stressed about this lol

“Among these heavy yeomen a feminine figure glided - the single one of her sex that the room contained. She moved between them as a chaise between carts, was heard after them as a romance after sermons, and was felt among them like a breeze among furnaces.”

“So, thinking of his misfortunes, amorous and pastoral he fell asleep, shepherds enjoying, in common with sailors, the privilege of being able to summon the god instead of having to wait for him.”