Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image ““She looked pale, mysterious, like a lily, drowned under water, he thought.”” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself.” — Joan G. Robinson Copy Share Image
“Her eyes narrowed until they were a faint greenish glitter, like a forest pool far back in the shadow of trees.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Behind and byond her looks,her manner, there had been some dark malaise. But nobody ever saw it, back then, he thought. All you saw… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
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“She looked out across the water and allowed the feeling of longing to wash over her, spill into the crevices of her soul, and… — Elizabeth Fama 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
