28 Quotes About The-waves

I was immensely moved by this novel when I read it recently and yet I cannot think of anything to say about it except that it is wonderful. The people are not characters, there is no plot in the usual sense. What can you bring to bear: verisimilitude — to what? You can merely say over and over that it is very good, very beautiful, that when you were reading it you were happy.

Y el poema me parece que sólo es tu voz hablando.

For such gestures one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime

Tengo raíces, pero floto.

The tiger leapt, and the swallow dipped her wings in dark pools on the other side of the world.

The red carnation that stood in the vase on the table of the restaurant when we dined together with Percival is become a six-sided flower; made of six lives

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for someone to wear them.

life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday follows Monday, then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; the pain is absorbed in growth.