“Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.”

“There are no signposts in the sea.”

“With me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”

“I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through...”

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple despe...”