It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear..

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me..

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings..

Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is a….

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement..

Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they alway….

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it..

Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy..

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever ….

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of….

If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can go around saying they're all so viol….

When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision.….

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value..

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes..

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels..

I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings….

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read..

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light..

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable..

Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising..

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position..