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“I that was born to be my own destroyer” page 37

“Orlando had become a woman- there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to their identity. Their faces remained, as their portraits prove, practically the same.” -Page 88

“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.” page 8

“And yet, in the end, we win- not in a flash of glory, as we had always hoped; not at the climax of some great trial, with the condemned man, vindicated at last, carried shoulder-high to freedom. We win quietly, behind closed doors, when tempers have cooled, in committee rooms and archives, as all the facts are sieved and sieved again, by careful jurists. -page 600

“For the first time in my life I carry hatred inside me. It is an almost physical thing, like a concealed knife. Sometimes, when I’m alone, I like to take it out and run my thumb along its cold, sharp blade.” -pages 449,450

“How do you come to know all this?” I put my arms around her. “I’m sorry,” I say. “It was my job.” -Page 395

“The dead did not get up and walk around.” - What moves the dead (p.88)