virginia woolf sentence meme.

sapphiism:

mostly from her letters to vita sackville-west. feel free to change pronouns, names etc!

• ‘i just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way.’
  
• ‘she lives in dreams, alone.’
  
• ‘it is true that i only want to show off to women.’
• ‘women alone stir my imagination.’
• ‘should you say, if i rang you up to ask, that you were fond of me?’
• ‘look here ( name, ) throw over your man.’
• ‘i’ll tell you all the things i have in my head, millions, myriads.’
• ‘they won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river.’
• ‘think of that.’
• ‘throw over your man, i say, and come.’
• ‘i did enjoy seeing you, and am wearing your necklace.’
• ‘is your garden good?’
• ‘i lie in bed making up stories about you.’
• ‘yesterday morning i was in despair.’
• ‘my body was flooded with rapture and my brain with ideas.’
• ‘i wrote rapidly till 12.’
• ‘shall you mind? say yes or no.’
• ‘here we go, alone, and like it better so.’
• ‘always, to have sympathy, always to be accompanied.’
• ‘to be understood would be unbearable.’
• ‘she stood there, she listened.’
• ‘she heard the names of the stars.’
• ‘but with you i am deeply, passionately, unrequitedly in love.’
• ‘dearest, i remember, do you?’
• ‘she looked pale, mysterious, like a lily, drowned, under water.‘
• ‘but for pain, words are lacking.’
• ‘she did not want to move, or to speak. she wanted to rest, to lean, to dream.’
• ‘she felt very tired.’
• ‘and i have no face.’
• ‘let me know truthfully and exactly how you are.’
  
• ‘oh, women are my line, and not these inanimate creatures.’
• ‘i have a  million things, not so much to say, as to sink into you.’
• ‘if i don’t hear, i shan’t sleep.’
• ‘my dearest, i do love you.’
• ‘all the sibyls and tom eliots in the world don’t love you as much as i do.’
• ‘i do bless you for all you’ve been to me.’
• ‘this is not a joke, but a very sober truth.’
• ‘it is a sensation i only get from you.’
• ‘it is physically stimulating, restful at the same time.’
• ‘how i watched you!’
• ‘i say the whole day on love.’
• ‘i say it’s seeing things through a purple shade.’
• ‘but you’ve never been in love, they say.’
• ‘yes i want you more and more.’
• ‘you’ll like to think of me unhappy i know.’
• ‘i want to express beauty too.’
• ‘the truth shall be dug out of you at all costs.’
  
• ‘i attain a different kind of beauty.’
• ‘i am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.’
• ‘dearest, i feel certain that i am going mad again.’
• ‘i feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times.’
• ‘i can’t fight any longer.’
• ‘you have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good.’
• ‘oh, this is pain, this is anguish!’
• ‘do not start. do not blush.’
• ‘let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things happen.’
• ‘sometimes women do like women.’
• ‘and you weren’t guilty then, were you? you swore you weren’t.’
• ‘but do you really like going to bed with women?’