Quotes of: Woolf Keyword

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

City of Lost Souls

It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

City of Lost Souls

Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me.

City of Lost Souls

Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff

City of Lost Souls

Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts?

City of Lost Souls

He touched her face. "I may not slip," he said, "but I fall.

City of Lost Souls

I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames.

City of Lost Souls

I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

City of Lost Souls

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

Congenial Spirits: Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Deadline

Why do you eat your own heart? Because, O King, it is bitter, and because it is my heart.

Dead Man Rising

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

Envy

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

Envy

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Envy

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

Envy

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

Envy

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

Envy

If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.

Envy

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

The End of Mr. Y

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for the money - Virginia Woolf

Fallen Angel