Drawing Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Clarissa will be bereaved, deeply lonely, but she will not die. She will be too much in love with life, with London. Virginia imagines…

— Michael Cunningham

“...Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss…

— Michael Cunningham

“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! For now that the body…

— Virginia Woolf

“But Miss Kilman did not hate Mrs. Dalloway. Turning her large gooseberry-coloured eyes upon Clarissa, observing her small pink face, her delicate body, her…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was an old-fashioned woman. She had the calm of frequentation; she belonged to this house and it to her. Though she was a…

— Christina Stead

“She was infuriating, bawdy, frank, and unreasonable. She was also kind, affectionate, trusting, and often touching. And I adored her. --said by the author…

— Peter Evans

“From these foolish embraces, which were not of very frequent occurrence, I must allow, I used to wish to extricate myself; but my energies…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“But she missed simple things, parents' birthdays, a rug underfoot, nights when she didn't have to sleep in a zipped bag. She began to…

— Don DeLillo

“Despite what you might think, they were comfortable there — the sleeping she-Majiski and the Elf with his book. It was completely normal to…

— S.G. Night

“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All…

— Thornton Wilder

“Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books…

— Eudora Welty

“Alas!’ he writes, ‘I am morbid, And have put a purple colour about my brow. All men seem eating and drinking the “Joy of…

— Austin Osman Spare