to the lighthouse

[spiderpig]

photo by (nz)dave

He was smiling at her, quizzically, as if he were ridiculing her gently for being asleep in broad daylight, but at the same time he was thinking, Go on reading. You don't look sad now, he thought.

- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

"Go on reading. You don't look sad now."

It's lines like these that I keep ploughing through the novel. Lighthouse is something I'd never want to read because I had to. It's the kind of novel where I'd like to have picked up on a slightly rainy (mostly foggy) day and settle in the armchair in the living room, turn on the reading light and read. Not something that I have to read for class.