The Hours

mortality

• the current wraps itself around her and takes her with such sudden, muscular force it feels as if a strong man has risen from the water

  HMC-RC-003

• The voices are here, the headache is coming, and if she restores herself to the care of Leonard and Vanessa they won't let her go again

  CUNN-HRS-RC-003

self-and-identity

• she, Clarissa, simply enjoys without reason the houses, the church, the man, and the dog. It's childish, she knows. It lacks edge.

  HMC-RC-065

• I thought I was a genius. I actually used that word, privately, to myself. Oh, pride, pride. I was so wrong. It defeated me.

  HMC-RC-119

desire

• Laura desires Kitty. She desires her force, her brisk and cheerful disappointment… Laura desires Dan, too, in a darker and less exquisite way.

  HMC-RC-076

• Julia inspires in her an erotic patriotism, as if Julia were the distant country in which Mary was born and from which she has been expelled.

  CUNN-HRS-RC-093