Olive Jeffares

“It is always twilight in one’s cell, as it is always twilight in one’s heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more. The thing that you personally have long ago forgotten, or can easily forget, is happening to me now, and will happen to me again to-morrow.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“The real work of destruction had been done long before by satire, libel and rumour; Marie Antoinette had become dehumanized. The actual assault by a body of people inspiring each other with their bloodthirsty frenzy was the culmination of the process, not the start of it.”
― Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey

“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out