“She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.”
Virginia Woolf book The Waves
Source: The Waves
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“I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”
Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse
Source: To the Lighthouse
“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Source: A Room of One's Own
“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Source: A Room of One's Own
“One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.”
Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography
Ch. 4
Source: Something, perhaps, we must believe in, and as Orlando, we have said, had no belief in the usual divinities she bestowed her credulity upon great men — yet with a distinction. Admirals, soldiers, statesmen, moved her not at all. But the very thought of a great writer stirred her to such a pitch of belief that she almost believed him to be invisible. Her instinct was a sound one. One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.
“For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.”
Virginia Woolf The Common Reader
Source: The Common Reader