Monday or Tuesday

“I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.””

— Virginia Woolf

“Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting.””

— Virginia Woolf

“She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the saucer.””

— Virginia Woolf

“The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.””

— Virginia Woolf

“Safe, safe, safe,” the heart of the house beats proudly. “Long years”

— Virginia Woolf

“People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more then they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.””

— Virginia Woolf

“He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings.””

— Virginia Woolf

“The dawn, even when it is cold and melancholy, never fails to shoot through my limbs as with arrows of sparkling piercing ice. I pull aside the thick curtains, and search for the first glow in the sky which shows that life is breaking through. And with my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is for ever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world!””

— Virginia Woolf

“Here we slept," she says. And he adds, "Kisses without number." "Waking in the morning -" "Silver between the trees -" "Upstairs -" "In the garden -""When summer came -""In winter snowtime -"The doors go shutting far in the distance, gently knocking like the pulse of a heart.””

— Virginia Woolf