Harriet ✿

“consciences r 4 bone clocks marinus, u r 1 beaten woman”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“Yet it is the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely, football and sport are ‘important’; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes ‘trivial’. And these values are inevitably transferred from life to fiction. This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. A scene in a battle-field is more important than a scene in a shop — everywhere and much more subtly the difference of value persists.”
― Virginia Woolf

“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Just so. I am what I am. To look for “reasons” is beside the point.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays