A Passionate Apprentice Quotes

“I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

“I had tea. I then spent a long time in a bookshop. A quiet evening.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

“The inner life has its soft and gentle beauty; an abstract formlessness as well as a subtle charm. I often consider myself as a figure in a foggy painting: faltering lines, insecure distances, and a merging of greys and blacks. An emotion or a mood—a mere wisp of color—is shaded off and made to spread until it becomes one with all that surrounds it.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

“I come home—and I have a feeling of returning like a ghost to its haunt.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

“What she said in To the Lighthouse of Lily Briscoe’s art she might have said of her own: that the pen was ‘the one dependable thing in a world of strife, ruin, chaos . . .’,73 and the godlike power she felt as a writer is perfectly embodied in a passage from that novel.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals 1897-1909