They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love

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.

I have had my vision.

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)

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.

Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.

I don't have the best dating track record.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.

To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

I'm just enjoying playing a character of myself. People's mouths drop when I dance, but my friends are like, "You dance like that in the kitchen!"

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.