“The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that — not letting themselves be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have a perfectly romantic and no doubt untrue vision of you in my mind – stamping out the hops in a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Must, must, must — detestable word. Once more, I who had thought myself immune, who had said, "Now I am rid of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Isa let her sewing drop. The great hooded chairs had become enormous. And Giles too. And Isa too against the window. The… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“[Virginia] is an exquisite companion, and I love her dearly. She has to stay in bed till luncheon, as she is still… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“These selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled on a waiter's hand, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Clive with his tongue well-loosened, imagine my horror when he suddenly said, 'I wonder if I dare ask Vita a very indiscreet… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image