And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense. Auteur: Virginia Woolf Copy Quote More from Virginia Woolf “I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.” “What are you thinking of, Katharine?" he asked suspiciously, noticing her tone …” “You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen …” “I fear I shall be a clinger to the outsides of words all my life.”