Dalia Levinsohn

“For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying--what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Are we not all prisoners? She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell, and she had felt that was true of life—one scratched on the wall.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“For some, religion is the cement that seals shut their door on the world”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries