The Signs As Quotes From Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’

Aries: ‘But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.’
Taurus: ‘The truth was, he explained, that his nerves were in a state where a mouse’s squeak upset them for a fortnight.’
Gemini: ‘People buzzed and hummed round the plate-glass windows within which one could see a glow of red, a blaze of yellow, as if they were bees.’
Cancer: ‘Indeed, such differences of opinion are enough to cause bloodshed and revolution.’
Leo: ‘and because it was the name of a white Russian fox he had had as a boy–a creature soft as snow, but with teeth of steel, which bit him so savagely.’
Virgo: ‘Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite,’
Libra: ‘By all the laws, Memory, having disturbed him sufficiently, should now have blotted the whole thing out completely, or have fetched up something so idiotic and out of keeping.’
Scorpio: ‘She could not deny that her ancestors had accumulated field after field; house after house; honour after honour; yet had none of them been saints or heroes, or great benefactors of the human race.’
Sagittarius: ‘He held that the mixture of brown earth and blue blood was a good one.’
Capricorn: ‘Indeed, some say that all our most violent passions, and art and religion, are the reflections which we see in the dark hollow at the back of the head when the visible world is obscured for the time.’
Aquarius: ‘The agony would seize him suddenly. Then he would blaze out in such wrath that she did not know how to quiet him.’
Pisces: ‘I’ve seen nets shrivel drawn on deck with only sea-weed in them; and sometimes there’s an inch of silver–six words–in the bottom of the net. But never the great fish who lives in the coral groves.’