Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Quotes

• “Beneath my eyes opens -- a book; I see to the bottom; the heart -- I see to the depths. I know what loves are trembling ...”
• “Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might ...”
• “Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and...”
• “For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my fles...”
• “The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.”