Alison

“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”
― Virginia Woolf, 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”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“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”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Richard has improved. You are right,' said Sally. 'I shall go and talk to him. I shall say good-night. What does the brain matter,' said Lady Rosseter, getting up, 'compared with the heart?'
'I will come,' said Peter, but he sat on for a moment. What was this terror? what is this ecstasy? the thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway