Tess Quotes

Well…can’t be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?”-Tess (pg 59)

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

Tess?” A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor.

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

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

I don’t want to feel anything for you, Dante” “God, Tess. I don’t want to feel anything for you either.

Tess,” I say. “I’m going to head down to the water.I’ll be back in a minute.” “You sure you can make it by yourself?” she asks. “I’ll be fine.” I smile. “If you see me floating unconscious out to sea,though-by all means,come and get me.

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say “good morning” in public without being liquored up.

Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?” “Yes.” “All like ours?” “I don’t know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound – a few blighted.” “Which do we live on – a splendid one or a blighted one?” “A blighted one.

He frames my face with his hands as he says, “Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me.” We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, “Forgive me.

I’m here, Tess. I’m right here, holding your hand. Adam’s here, too, he’s sitting on the other side of the bed. And Cal. Mum’s on her way, she’ll be just a minute. We all love you, Tessa. We’re all right here with you.

He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.” “That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don’t mind.