If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the sum of her experiences, though it runs like veins of brilliant metal through all three. It is an inner faculty that recognizes the animating mysteries of the world because it is made of the same substance
The Hours: A Novel (ed. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998) - ISBN: 9781429957946