More quotes by Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

"Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness."
"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?"
"I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them."
"anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."