“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
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