Mrs Dalloway

[When a guest at her party starts to laugh]

Mrs. Dalloway:
[thinking] Oh, it's not a failure after all.

Peter Walsh:
Oh what snobs the English are. How they love dressing up and doing homage. Look at them!

Mrs. Dalloway:
What a lark! What a plunge!

Peter Walsh:
[Talking about Clarissa in 1923] She broke my heart, and you can't love like that twice.

I knew that I loved her once and that it stayed with me all my life and it colored everything.