A review by starsign
The Waves by Virginia Woolf

5.0

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.” 

easily one of the best books i’ve ever read, i have read this back in 2022 and decided to write a review now. i have been feeling these six characters within my soul for the past 2 years, for some parts i am the six of them and at times i am no one, if only i knew who i was. what resonated with me the most is their relationship within each other. 

i think of people to whom i could say such things, Louis, Neville, Susan, Jenny and Rhoda. With them I am many-sided. They retrieve me from darkness.

i remember this quote clearly because i immediately thought of a dear dear friend that has been retrieving me from darkness for a long time and immediately showed my love and gratitude . oh to be able to stand still even though the waves are heavy because after all, only the motion is different and not oneself.  

And now I ask, "Who am I?" I have been talking of Bernard, Neville, Jinny, Susan, Rhoda and Louis. Am I all of them? Am I one and distinct? I do not know.