Stephanie

“When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them.”
― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway