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Thomas Hardy

Novelist and poet. Neutral Tones is about a love that ended by a pond.

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The quotes

3 quotes by or about Thomas Hardy, in the order they happen.

We stood by a pond that winter day

Hardy · Neutral Tones · loss · romantic love

The first line. A cold pond, a grey day. The end of something.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die

Hardy · Neutral Tones · loss

Her smile was already dead. Just alive enough to finish dying.

And a pond edged with grayish leaves

Hardy · Neutral Tones · loss

The last line. Years later, every lost love brings back that pond.

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