Rachel

“She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible, unseen; unknown; there being no more marrying, no more having of children now, but only this astonishing and rather solemn progress with the rest of them, up Bond Street, this being Mrs. Dalloway; not even Clarissa any more; this being Mrs. Richard Dalloway.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with some one, up went her back like a cat’s; or she purred.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition