Mona Espinosa

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Years

“You’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway