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Não sei como alguém teve a capacidade de escrever isso, que loucura esse livro existir

'Marriage, death, travel, friendship,' said Bernard; 'town and country; children and all that; a many-sided substance cut out of this dark; a many-faceted flower. Let us stop for a moment; let us behold what we have made. Let it blaze against the yew trees. One life. There. It is over. Gone out.'

I am not involved in this pageantry. I see the violet-sashed priests and the picturesque nursemaids; I notice externals only. I sit here like a convalescent, like a very simple man who knows only words of one syllable. “The sun is hot,” I say. “The wind is cold.” I feel myself carried round like an insect on top of the earth and could swear that, sitting here, I feel its hardness, its turning movement.

Faltam 3 capítulos e não quero acabar. Até agora To the lighthouse era o melhor livro que já tinha lido, e a Virginia Woolf conseguiu se superar. Quase não tenho mais post it porque tô marcando praticamente cada frase. INCRÍVEL!!! Tô com a mesma sensação que tive quando li Tô the lighthouse: se tivesse que ler só um livro pro resto da minha vida e fosse esse, eu acharia ótimo.

"Yet these roaring waters,“ said Neville, “upon which we build our crazy platforms are more stable than the wild, the weak and inconsequent cries that we utter when, trying to speak, we rise; when we reason and jerk out these false sayings, ‘I am this; I am that!’ Speech is false.”

As each thing in the bedroom grows clear, my heart beats quicker. I feel my body harden, and become pink, yellow, brown. My hands pass over my legs and body. I feel its slopes, its thinness. I love to hear the gong roar through the house and the stir begin—here a thud, there a patter. Doors slam; water rushes. Here is another day, here is another day, I cry, as my feet touch the floor.

tô com medo de me decepcionar pq to com a expectativa de que vai ser o melhor livro da minha vida, o que é meio injusto

(mas por esse começo acho que vai ser o melhor livro da minha vida)