virginia woolf sentence meme.
mostly from her letters to vita sackville-west. feel free to change pronouns, names etc!
‘i just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way.’
‘she lives in dreams, alone.’
‘it is true that i only want to show off to women.’
‘women alone stir my imagination.’
‘should you say, if i rang you up to ask, that you were fond of me?’
‘look here ( name, ) throw over your man.’
‘i’ll tell you all the things i have in my head, millions, myriads.’
‘they won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river.’
‘throw over your man, i say, and come.’
‘i did enjoy seeing you, and am wearing your necklace.’
‘i lie in bed making up stories about you.’
‘yesterday morning i was in despair.’
‘my body was flooded with rapture and my brain with ideas.’
‘i wrote rapidly till 12.’
‘shall you mind? say yes or no.’
‘here we go, alone, and like it better so.’
‘always, to have sympathy, always to be accompanied.’
‘to be understood would be unbearable.’
‘she stood there, she listened.’
‘she heard the names of the stars.’
‘but with you i am deeply, passionately, unrequitedly in love.’
‘dearest, i remember, do you?’
‘she looked pale, mysterious, like a lily, drowned, under water.‘
‘but for pain, words are lacking.’
‘she did not want to move, or to speak. she wanted to rest, to lean, to dream.’
‘let me know truthfully and exactly how you are.’
‘oh, women are my line, and not these inanimate creatures.’
‘i have a million things, not so much to say, as to sink into you.’
‘if i don’t hear, i shan’t sleep.’
‘my dearest, i do love you.’
‘all the sibyls and tom eliots in the world don’t love you as much as i do.’
‘i do bless you for all you’ve been to me.’
‘this is not a joke, but a very sober truth.’
‘it is a sensation i only get from you.’
‘it is physically stimulating, restful at the same time.’
‘i say the whole day on love.’
‘i say it’s seeing things through a purple shade.’
‘but you’ve never been in love, they say.’
‘yes i want you more and more.’
‘you’ll like to think of me unhappy i know.’
‘i want to express beauty too.’
‘the truth shall be dug out of you at all costs.’
‘i attain a different kind of beauty.’
‘i am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.’
‘dearest, i feel certain that i am going mad again.’
‘i feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times.’
‘i can’t fight any longer.’
‘you have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good.’
‘oh, this is pain, this is anguish!’
‘do not start. do not blush.’
‘let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things happen.’
‘sometimes women do like women.’
‘and you weren’t guilty then, were you? you swore you weren’t.’
‘but do you really like going to bed with women?’
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