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“Who cares?' said Judy, who didn't care.”
― Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
― Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't." (145)”
― Bastard Out of Carolina
― Bastard Out of Carolina
“...children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed. For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of-- to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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