#dailywoolf

[shakespearewasaunicorn]

Once she knows how to read there’s only one thing you can teach her to believe in—and that is herself.

from Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf

[shakespearewasaunicorn]

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

from Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

[shakespearewasaunicorn]

(...) this scene on the beach for example, this moment of friendship and liking - which survived, after all these years, complete, so that she dipped into it to refashion her memory of him, and it stayed in the mind almost like a work of art.

from "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf

[shakespearewasaunicorn]

...I live; I die; the sea comes over me; it's the blue that lasts.

from Melymbrosia by Virginia Woolf

[shakespearewasaunicorn]

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

[shakespearewasaunicorn]

…she wanted many more things than the love of one human being — the sea, the sky.

from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

[shakespearewasaunicorn]

I am astonished, as I draw the veil off things with words, how much, how infinitely more than I can say, I have observed.

from The Waves by Virginia Woolf

[shakespearewasaunicorn]

Better is silence..Let me sit with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

from The Waves by Virginia Woolf