Mission Accomplished

Well, I finished the novel, so here are the rest of the quotations that happened to catch my mind's eye. The last one hundred pages are rather a bit sad and keep the reader hoping; like in so many stories, everything becomes clear, characters are finally honest with each other and themselves, even when they didn't know dishonesty and half truths hung so heavily in the air.

"There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness."
"Bodily activity will sometimes take the sting out of anxiety as completely as assurance itself."
"On ordinary occasions she had a tongue so frank as to show her whole mind, and a mind so straightforward as to reveal her heart to its innermost shrine."
" 'Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.' "
"The season was that period in autumn when the foliage alone of an ordinary plantation is rich enough in hues to exhaust the chromatic combinations of an artist's palette."
"It was pleasant to realize the implicit trust she placed in him, and to think of the charming innocence of one who could sink to sleep in so simple and unceremonious a manner."
"Shallowness has this advantage, that you can't be drowned there."
Thomas Hardy in A Pair of Blue Eyes

Now I get to start a new book...