“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.” ― Virginia Woolf , The Waves -Aww, that really touched the deepest part of my heart! Did that come out of yourself? -Of course not! I wish it came from me... It's from a Virginia Woolf's book I'm reading at the moment. - As I suspected...too good for you. Really? I quite like her but I've never heard of that passage before. From which book is it? - It is from "The waves". Maybe it's not her most famous book, but she has other novels known worldwide such as Mrs Dalloway or To the lighthouse. - Yes I know those ones better. But what I like the most about her are both her feminist and gender equality thoughts. - Does she have any books about that? - Yes, she has written about it in her books Orlando and A Room of o
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." - Wow. That's so inspiring! Where is it from? - It belongs to the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Are you familiar with it? - It rings a bell but I haven't read it. What is it about? - It takes place in a small town in Alabama during the 30s. It gives a view on racism and segregation at that time in the USA especially in the south. - Oh, I see. Do you know if the author lived that same situation? - Well, she was born in 1926 and actually wrote the novel in the 60s but she was inspired by her hometown for the backround of the story. - That's pretty interesting! She is a really important author, isn't she? But did she write any other books? - She is very well