"It's on this day. This day of all days. Her fate becomes clear to her."
I watched this movie about three times over the summer plus read the book. I pretty much know it backwards and forwards now... so I wanted to make a spam of my favorite scenes and quotes. One of the quotes is from the book.
"A woman's whole life in a single day. Just one day. And in that day her whole life." - Virginia Woolf
Virginia: [writing] Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Laura: [reading] Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Clarissa: Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself.
Laura: We're baking the cake to show him that we love him.
Richie: Otherwise he won't know?
Laura: That's right.
Angelica: What happens when we die?
Virginia: What happens... We return to the place that we came from.
Angelica: I don't remember where I came from.
Virginia: Nor do I.
Angelica: She looks very small.
Virginia: Yes... yes that's one of the things that happens, we look smaller.
Angelica: But very peaceful.
"She would like to lie down in its place. No denying it, she would like that. Vanessa and Julian can go about their business, their tea and travels, while she, Virginia, a bird-sized Virginia, lets herself metamorphose from an angular, difficult woman into an ornament on a hat; a foolish, uncaring thing.
Clarissa, she thinks, is not the bride of death after all. Clarissa is the bed in which the bride is laid."
Leonard: If I didn't know you better I'd call this ingratitude.
Virginia: I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in... I'm living a life I have no wish to live... How did this happen?
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Virginia: This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death.
*****
Virginia: You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
Richard: I don't think i can make it to the party, Clarissa.
Clarissa: You don't have to go to the party, you don't have to go to the ceremony, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. You can do as you like.
Richard: But I still have to face the hours, don't I? I mean, the hours after the party, and the hours after that...
*****
Clarissa: Are they here?
Richard: Who?
Clarissa: The voices?
Richard: Oh the voices are always here.
Clarissa: And it's the voices that you're hearing now isn't it?
Richard: No, no, no Mrs. Dalloway it's you. I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go...
I'm afraid i can't make it to the party Clarissa.
Clarissa: The party doesn't matter.
Richard: You've been so good to me, Mrs. Dalloway. I love you. I don't think two people could have been happier than we've been.
Laura: It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. There it is. No one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life.
Virginia: Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love.
Always the hours.
+Caps+
Watch some of the scenes:
First Scene
Bird Funeral
Virginia and Leonard at the Train Station
Last Scene/Virginia's Suicide