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'She can kiss Kitty in the kitchen and love her husband, too.'

'She kisses Vanessa, chastely, on the lips.'

'Clarissa will be bereaved, deeply lonely, but she will not die. She will be too much in love with life, with London'

'She imagines Virginia Woolf, virginal, unbalanced, defeated by the impossible demands of life and art'

'What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass... Now she knows. That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.'

'She hasn't asked the doctor about it; she's afraid he'll tell her to stop reading altogether. She promises that tonight she'll read less.'

'What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run. She, Clarissa Vaughan, an ordinary person (at this age, why bother trying to deny it?), has flowers to buy and a party to give.'