Quotes from Virgina Woolf

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character.

The door opens and the tiger leaps.

Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle's.

Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white?

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

There they were," she went on, "the stars. And he asked himself, my great-grandfather — that boy: 'What are they? Why are they? And who am I?' as one does, sitting alone, with no one to talk to, looking at the stars.