Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

Quotes

• “Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what?...”
• “I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross ...”
• “anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.”
• “Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.”
• “When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”