Saskia’s Reviews > The Waves > Status Update

i actually bawled-

it's. just. so. beautiful.
reading it so slowly but it's because i need to savour it and i am annotating half of every page. it's giving me so much to think about, i am in the writing mood once again. might write a couple paragraphs tomorrow.
i think i am in love with virginia woolf.

"To be loved by Susan would be to be impaled by a bird's sharp beak, to be nailed to a barnyard door. Yet there are moments where I could wish to be speared by a beak, to be nailed to a barnyard door, positively, once and for all."

i-
excuse me while i have a mental breakdown-

"There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities."

i think my favourite book of all time is being born...

"These are fantastic pictures - these are figments, these visions of friends in absence, grotesque, dropsical, vanishing at the first touch of the toe of a real boot. Yet they drum me alive."

i-

"I am rooted, but I flow. I flutter, I ripple."