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“Fear no more,' said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o' the sun; for the shock of Lady Burton asking Richard to lunch without her made the moment in which she had stood shiver, as a plant on the river-bed feels the shock of a passing oar and shivers: so she rocked: so she shivered”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“He's read nothing, thought nothing, felt nothing' he could hear her saying in that very emphatic voice which carried so much farther than she knew”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“Clarissa had a theory in those days—they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met every day; then not for six months, or years. It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“For he would say it in so many words, when he came into the room. Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels...”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“The clock began striking. The young man had killed himself; but she did not pity him; with the clock striking the hour, one, two, three, she did not pity him, with all this going on. There! the old lady had put out her light! the whole house was dark now with this going on, she repeated, and the words came to her, Fear no more the heat of the sun. She must go back to them. But what an extraordinary night! She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away. The clock was striking. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. He made her feel the beauty; made her feel the fun. But she must go back. She must assemble”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
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