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“There are things I’d rather whisper and never quite say out loud.”

—Virginia Woolf in a diary entry dated 20 July 1938

“I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.”

—Clarissa Vaughan, The Hours (2002)

“Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.”

—Virginia Woolf

“She did not wish to remember; it troubled her when people tried to disturb her loneliness; she wished to be alone. She wished for nothing else in the world.”

—Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via flowerville)

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” ”

— Virginia Woolf

“Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.”

—Virginia Woolf

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

—Virginia Woolf

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me.’”

—Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Pray heaven that the inside of my mind may not be exposed.”

—Virginia Woolf, from To The Lighthouse

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness — I am nothing.”

—Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

—Virginia Woolf

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”

—Virginia Woolf

“It is strange that we who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering.”

—Virginia Woolf from The Waves

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

—Virginia Woolf
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