Literature Quote by Virginia Woolf

“She lost herself in infinite dismay when she thought of the magnitude of his deception.”

— Henry James

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“After years of pining over something she could never have, she would choose to embrace the cold comfort of reality instead. No more daydreams…

— Julie Lessman

“Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time…

— India Drummond

“but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend…

— Jane Austen

“She was a fool—infusing his every word with innuendo, every touch with fire, all the while believing that it alone could satisfy her.”

— Shewanda Pugh

“She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun…

— Karen Chance

“To her amazement, she realized that the way of life of these people was nothing more than an indeterminate fiction, casually knotted together at…

— Gerhard Amanshauser

“Maybe she had some sort of extraordinary quality, secret even to her. Maybe she did have the power to alter the things she'd always…

— Anna North

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“Never in her life had she beheld his equal in form, strength, or grace, but it wasn’t just the unexpected sight of him. He…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“...she still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts in which…

— Leo Tolstoy