“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“I beg you friend, be happy. I have the vague sense that on your capacity to be happy hangs our only hope.”
― Slowness
― Slowness
“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
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