"Her temper was uncertain — and she was not easy, and she was not quiet, or beautiful, except in some..."

“Her temper was uncertain — and she was not easy, and she was not quiet, or beautiful, except in some dresses in some lights. But the great gift she had was that she understood what was said to her; there had never been any one like her for talking to. You could say anything — you could say everything, and yet she was never servile.”

- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out  (via rabbitinthemoon)