Orlando by Virginia Woof really is That Book and here are some choice quotes:
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
“I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
The entire section of The Great Frost
“ Life is a dream. ‘Tis the waking that kills us.”
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
“A woman. Yes, but a million other things as well.”
“The man looks the world full in the face, as if it were made for his uses and fashioned to his liking. The woman takes a sidelong glance at it, full of subtlety, even of suspicion.”
“But there she lay content. The scent of the bog myrtle and the meadow-sweet was in her nostrils. The rooks’ hoarse laughter was in her ears. ‘I have found my mate,’ she murmured. ‘It is the moor. I am nature’s bride,’ she whispered, giving herself in rapture to the cold embraces of the grass as she lay folded in her cloak in the hollow by the pool.”
“All was still now. It was near midnight. The moon rose slowly over the weald. Its light raised a phantom castle upon earth. There stood the great house with all its windows robed in silver. Of wall or substance there was none. All was phantom. All was still. All was lit as for the coming of a dead Queen.”
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