“She alone spoke the truth; to her alone could he speak it. That was the source of her everlasting attraction for him, perhaps; she was a person to whom one could say what came into one's head.”
More from Virginia Woolf
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“I am like the foam that races over the beach or the moonlight that falls arrow-like here…”