Gwen

“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know)....”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

“She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories