From 'The Hours'

Quotations
Richard: Oh Mrs. Dalloway, always throwing parties to cover the silence.
-The Hours

Richard: No matter what you start with it ends up being so much less.
-The Hours

Richard: I'm saying I think I'm only staying alive to satisfy you.
Clarissa: Well, so that is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.
-The Hours

Angelica: What happens when we die?
Virginia: We return to the place that we came from.
-The Hours

Clarissa Vaughan: So this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And, of course, there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning: it was happiness, it was the moment…
-The Hours

Richard: I seem to have fallen out of time.
-The Hours

Virginia: Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.
-The Hours

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