Anna

“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

-From Street Haunting: A London Adventure”
― Virginia Woolf

“Surely it must be smaller than my own far greater country across the waters, where each field is so thick with legend and myth and ancient battles that one step is not merely in space, unlike in this new world, but also through layers of time. Here there is nothing, only land, all the earth and mountains and trees remain innocent of story. This place is itself a sheet of parchment yet to be written upon,”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

“For it was a truth that mothers, having already lost their liberty when they bore children, having been tethered to the earth with this new soft tender body they must now protect forever, were the ones who understood the delicate balance between the price of freedom and the price of their children's lives.”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

“Change was incessant, and change perhaps would never cease. High battlements of thought, habits that had seemed durable as stone, went down like shadows at the touch of another mind and left a naked sky and fresh stars twinkling in it.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando