Vanessa Bell Quotes in Carrington (1995)

Lytton Strachey: Venessa?

Vanessa Bell: Yes.

Lytton Strachey: Who on earth is that ravishing boy?

Vanessa Bell: I take it you are not referring to either of my sons?

Lytton Strachey: No.

Vanessa Bell: Carrington.

Virginia Woolf: Do you think I may one day escape?

Vanessa Bell: One day.

Vanessa Bell: Virginia.

Virginia Woolf: Leonard thinks it's the end of civilization: People who are invited at 4 and arrive at 2:30.

Vanessa Bell: Oh God.

Virginia Woolf: Barbarians.

Vanessa Bell: Your aunt is a very lucky woman Angelica. She has two lives. The life she is living, and the book she is writing.

Virginia Woolf: You return to what?

Vanessa Bell: Tonight. Oh, just some insufferable dinner not even you could envy, Virginia.

Virginia Woolf: But I do.