Jaclyn

“You come and see me among flowers and pictures, and think me mysterious, romantic, and all the rest of it. Being yourself very inexperienced and very emotional, you go home and invent a story about me, and now you can't separate me from the person you've imagined me to be. You call that, I suppose, being in love; as a matter of fact it's being in delusion.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering—the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself at all.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“for he that strikes the first blow, if he strikes it hard enough, may need to strike no more.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“She was, on the contrary, inclined to be silent; she shrank from expressing herself even in talk, let alone in writing.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day