Alanna Thornton’s Reviews > Far From the Madding Crowd > Status Update

“the landscape, even to the leanest pasture, being all health and colour.
Every green was young, every pore was open, and every stalk was swollen with crowding currents of juice. God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.”

I actually agreed with Oak’s “rebuke”
She’s being SO dumb

“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.”

“The great aids to idealization in love were present here: occasional observation of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercourse with her - visual familiarity, oral strangeness.”

Love it haha

“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