I have had my vision.

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.

i am so crammedfull of fearsthat if you were to touch me i might eitherfly or break.

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

If we don't kill, we will cease to exist

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion.