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“And, touching his hair with her lips, she thought, she will never be so happy again, but stopped herself, remembering how it angered her husband that she should say that. Still, it was true. They were happier now than they would ever be again.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse

“Trying to preserve some "space for yourself" in the crowded domestic sphere feels like obsessively cupping your hands around thin air. You carve it out, the time you need, after much anxiety and debate, and get into the separate space and look between your hands and there it is â€� nothing. An empty victory.”
― Intimations
― Intimations

“What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers? What device for becoming, like water poured into one jar, inextricably the same, one with the object one adored?”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse

“He was reading very quickly, as if he were eager to get to the end. Indeed they were very close to the
Lighthouse now.”
― To the Lighthouse
Lighthouse now.”
― To the Lighthouse

“I read this line about love: "Without it, life is just 'doing time'" I don't think she intended by this only romantic love, or familial love or really any kind of love in particular. At least, I read it in the Platonic sense: Love with a capital L, and ideal form and essential part of the universe.”
― Intimations
― Intimations

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