Flower Quote by Virginia Woolf

“It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they…

— Virginia Woolf

“For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected.…

— Jane Austen

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a…

— Virginia Woolf

“felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think…

— Margaret Mitchell

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that…

— Ian Mcewan

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as…

— Jane Austen

“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?”

— Rachel Abbott