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Vita died from cancer on 2 June 1962. Her writing desk at Sissinghurst remains as she left it, decorated with two photos: one is of her husband, and the other is of Virginia.

oh lord i’m not okay im not okay. struggling to think of a time i have been LESS okay

“The Americans have unequalled genius for making everything hideous.”

and the gag was heard across the land

“I told Nessa the story of our passion, in the chemist’s shop the other day. ‘But do you really like going to bed with women?’ she said, taking her change. ‘And how d’you do it?’ And so she bought her pills to take abroad, talking loudly as a parrot.”

god virginia woolf is a hoot

just did something very very stupid and read the last page of the book (IM SENSITIVE and needed to know how to prepare!) and learnt that the last letter here is one sent by vita to her husband, informing him of virginia’s suicide 😭😭😭 i had naively hoped that maybe they wouldn’t include that bit.. i might be the saddest girl on goodreads today

vita’s reassurances to her husband sound like “my darling, i assure you that virginia is no more than a friend and my heart belongs to none other than you, my own. you needn’t worry for it is you i love and what i feel for virginia is no more than the most intense passion i have ever felt in my life. i love her more than i shall ever love you. but she is just a friend. by the way, we slept together”

“Virginia’s Diary

30 June

This is the last day of June and finds me in black despair because Clive laughed at my new hat, Vita pities me, and I sank into the depths of gloom.”

me when people don’t get my outfit choices

“A carapace suited me better than soft skin, and I found it powerful to want nothing: for then I could never be disappointed. For then no one could ever see the ways in which I lacked. I had mastery over everything, even my own wayward heart, and Henry loved me for it.”

what a passage

“Henry needed me at the works.”
Carmilla sighs, elbow on the table, chin propped in her hand. I have bored her again.

universally, no one (and i mean NO ONE) wants you to stop talking about your man more than the lesbian in love with you

“I have already told you. I must make arrangements for the shooting party. Henry will be angry if I let him down.”
Carmilla sighs. “Henry, Henry, Henry. You are not listening to me.”

carmilla getting mad each time lenore mentions her husband is so funny😭😭 my girl wants lenore to pass the bechdel test SOO BAD

“To cover the bosoms of the women, put pants on the men, and send them all to Sunday school to mumble the gospel was the aim of an army of stony-eyed spinsters from Yorkshire”

calling missionary women spinsters 😭😭😭

“ am a beauty. It is well-known My eyes are cornflower blue and my skin like spilt cream. When we were courting, Henry would take down my hair from its pins and wind its heavy locks around his fingers like honey around a knife.
I was pretty then; I am beautiful now.”

god, i love a woman who knows she’s beautiful

what the hell happened to the goodreads chat feature??? where did it go?? how am i supposed to chat with the good people of goodreads????¿

god, i love a second chance

everyone acting like maggie is a crazy person for having socialist values is my enemy

holy shit this is so good

“Panic infuses me.
Existential panic.
Not least because I just turned up to a drug-fuelled orgy with picnic food. And I expected to meet multiple men here called Tina.”

i’m crying this is so funny

alright let’s see what the hype is about

i love you susan sontag, you would’ve hated instagram reels

“Thus, the Stoics, to accord with their view that the gods had to be moral, allegorized away the rude features of Zeus and his boisterous clan in Homer’s epics. What Homer really designated by the adultery of Zeus with Leto, they explained, was the union between power and wisdom.”

LOL i didn’t cheat on you, babe! it’s a metaphor!

He adds that “this needn’t be seen only as a Jewish characteristic; in our age of vast population transfers, of refugees, exiles, expatriates and immigrants, it can also be identified in the diasporic, wandering, unresolved, cosmopolitan consciousness of someone who is both inside and outside his or her community.” edward said, the man that you are

How many calories did you burn coming out three different times to four people in one day?

finally the real questions

oh my god the girls are fighting. i feel sick, i can’t do this

“That was a good idea. Anne stood up so quickly, her vision blackened at the edges.”

truly, nothing discriminates less than your iron deficiency that doesn’t give a fuck about your newfound lesbianism or whether or not you’ve just confessed your undying love to your best friend

“Anne, I need you to be very, very clear with me right now. You’re proposing a permanent and exclusive commitment, possibly with cohabitation, that’s entirely platonic. Do I have that right?”

no one in the world perhaps relates to the “and then they were roommates” vine the way anne does, i just know it

“Dense pain impaled her chest. Maybe she was having a heart attack. Maybe this was exactly what a heart attack felt like. Her heart, attacked.”

lesbians are SO dramatic i love us

kimberly from goodreads—who i’ve been acquainted with for a grand total of 60 minutes— reviewed this book “poignant and sexy AF” and really, what more incentive is even necessary?

how am i just realising that goodreads has done away with the messaging feature ??????? this is so upsetting, how am i meant to keep up with the baddies on goodreads other than for in PUBLIC!

“This league is about more than racing. It’s about proving what happens when talent, discipline, and opportunity collide. It’s about showing the world that speed, skill, and determination aren’t limited by where you come from, what you look like, or who you are.”

PLEASE don’t tell me this is AI generated writing????

“I am the Princess of Paris, Agent Ivanov. And nothing in this city is above me.”

🥴🥴🥴

katarina for no reason in every chapter: 🤨