Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image ““She would die like some bird in a frost gripping her perch.”” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A frost lay over all her emotions and she thought that she would never feel anything warmly again.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She was like a flightless bird, her wings clipped by every cruel word and heartless action bestowed upon her. I realized I would do… — Kellie McAllen Copy Share Image
“She liked it? 'I love it--the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot.” — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“She had covered herself in frost, so every part of her grew cold and would not feel, because of that single part that longed… — Shehanne Moore Copy Share Image
“Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?” — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“I would not put my little bird in the jaws of a trap without being near enough to make sure it wouldn't close on… — Lili St. Crow Copy Share Image
“Before the end, you will pluck snowdrops at midwinter, die by your own choosing, and weep for a nightingale.” — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
“Now hear me. Before the end, you will pluck snowdrops at midwinter, die by your own choosing, and weep for a nightingale.” — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
“though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?” — Lorrie Moore 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
