“She could not beat to be irrelevant. Virginia lives to be essential.” Virginia WoolfEssential Book:Vanessa and Her Sister Source: Vanessa and Her Sister
“How I should have raised all her terrible destruction to the surface like a shipwrecked boat dredged up from the sea floor. But that would have given the fracture a shape, a dimension--a definite perimeter to the ruin. This way has a subtle cruelty. This way will torment. She will spend years trying to map the rift she caused and sound the damage. She will push on the bruise and grow frantic trying to repair the creeping remoteness. It is the unkindest thing I have ever done. And I will not relent. I will not do otherwise.” Betrayal Book:Vanessa and Her Sister Source: Vanessa and Her Sister
“But to begin again? No, Virginia. There can be no beginning again. Love and forgiveness are not the same thing.” Betrayal Book:Vanessa and Her Sister Source: Vanessa and Her Sister