Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image ““I am wrapped round with phrases, like damp straw; I glow, phosphorescent.”” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He holds his glass up and turns to me as a single flake catches on the rim before melting down the one side into… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red. “I” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The more you glow, the more you grow. Your light IS your gift to this world.” — Indigo Ocean Copy Share Image
“I might foam at the mouth, but bring me a doll to play with, give me a cup of tea with sugar in it,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The still waters Wrap my lips, Eyes, nose and ears, A clear Cellophane I cannot crack.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Goodness is a bright flame within you. Use it to light up the world.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
“We clinked glasses. I took a sip. The tiny bubbles melted in my mouth and journeyed northward into my brain. Sweet.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.” — Normandi Ellis Copy Share Image
“I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image