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“So dull, I am; dull outwardly, at least; all oafish and muddy; but not dull inside. A week's solitude restores me to the sense that I am a person and not a rag-heap for other people to pick over.”
― Vita Sackville-West, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

“If any of you have lost your nerve, then step away now and let no one judge you.”
― Stephen Provost, Tár: Screenplay

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this —But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it”
― Vita Sackville-West, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

“Did you think I'd be your daughter forever? Are you the father of fools, the fool of fathers?'

'Your tone is unkind with me,' I answered.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire