Virgilia Quotes & Sayings

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions. — Virgilia Peterson

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory. — Virgilia Peterson

Observe now with what skill, with what art, I make the biggest transition in this book. Observe: my delirium began in the presence of Virgilia; Virigilia was the great sin of my youth; there is no youth without childhood; childhood presupposes birth; and so we arrive, effortlessly, at October 20, 1805, the date of my birth. — Machado De Assis

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life. — Virgilia Peterson

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does. — Virgilia Peterson

Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock. — Virgilia Peterson

My name, sir, is Virgilia Wessex. I am a Sunday school teacher from Sussex, England, and I have given you no leave to address me as anything."
His mouth seemed to almost smile, but if so, he caught it just on the brink and decided against it. "Well, I've just given the gent who found you first an obscene amount of money to address you however I please ... Gillia. — V.S. Carnes

Because you have my heart, Virgilia Wessex." Softly, almost achingly. "Every black ounce of it. Scars and all. — V.S. Carnes

There is no plummet to sound another's soul. — Virgilia Peterson

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it. — Virgilia Peterson

In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness. — Virgilia Peterson

Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual. — Virgilia Peterson

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope. — Virgilia Peterson