I to my friends, to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken. Author: Virginia Woolf Copy Quote More from Virginia Woolf “Nothing so cuts the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense …” “All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one …” “A toy boat, a toy boat, a toy boat,’ she repeated, thus enforcing upon herself …” “I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.”