Bed Quote by Virginia Woolf

“What I mean is, that the real gladness of life is not in these great occasions of pleasure, but in the little side delights…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see…

— Julian Fellowes

“Maisy Holt was pure joy. She was goodness personified. She was a beam of sunshine breaking through the clouds in my life.”

— Devney Perry

As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope a reader…

— Alice McDermott

“All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation,…

— Jane Austen

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

— Jane Austen

“She almost began to fancy herself unfeeling, when she found him so much more depressed than she was herself, and unable to feel it…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

— Jack Kerouac

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“There was I, then, mounted aloft; I, who had said I could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet in the…

— Charlotte Brontë

“ 134. Letters are Commonplace Letters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they are! When someone is in a distant province and one…

— Sei Shonagon

“And indeed she did not. I thought she had a tired, dragged appearance, but I would not say so. I knew her well, and…

— Marie Corelli