Surabhi

“that to be engaged to marry some one with whom you are not in love is an inevitable step in a world where the existence of passion is only a traveller's story brought from the heart of deep forests and told so rarely that wise people doubt whether the story can be true.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything—but I want to work out something in figures—something that hasn't got to do with human beings. I don't want people particularly. In some ways, Henry, I'm a humbug—I mean, I'm not what you all take me for. I'm not domestic, or very practical or sensible, really. And if I could calculate things, and use a telescope, and have to work out figures, and know to a fraction where I was wrong, I should be perfectly happy,”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“Mr. Denham cursed himself very sharply for having exchanged the freedom of the street for this sophisticated drawing-room,”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“He was amused and gratified to find that he had the power to annoy his oblivious, supercilious hostess, if he could not impress her; though he would have preferred to impress her. He”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day