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

“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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