"She was all that. So that to know her, or any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places. Odd affinities she had with people she had never spoken to, some woman in the street, some man behind a counter - even trees, or barns. It ended in a transcendental theory which, with her horror of death, allowed her to believe, or say that she believed (for all her suspicions), that since our apparitions, the part of us which appears, are so momentary compared with the other, the unseen part of us, which spreads wide, the unseen might survive, be recovered somehow attached to this person or that, or even haunting certain places, after death. Perhaps - perhaps." Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Nothing like reading a book at the right time in the right moment by the right author.
"...What does the brain matter,' said Lady Rosseter, getting up,'compared with the heart?'"
2 comments:
Beautiful quote. Never read Mrs Dalloway because I didn't like To the Lighthouse much...
:) which one? and you should try it... it was like one giant run-on sentence but one giant run-on sentence filled with gems that made it worth it ^_^
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