- Peter Walsh: [Talking about Clarissa in 1923] She broke my heart, and you can't love like that twice.
- Mrs. Dalloway: [thinking, voice over] It's all over for me. The sheets stretched and the beds narrow.
- [When a guest at her party starts to laugh]
- Mrs. Dalloway: [thinking] Oh, it's not a failure after all.
- Mrs. Dalloway: [Mrs. Dalloway's first lines in the film - thinking, voice over] Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way. Those Gods will never lose a chance of hurting, thwarting, and spoiling human lives.
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- Mrs. Dalloway: Of course, now I think there are no Gods, there is no-one to blame.
- Peter Walsh: Oh what snobs the English are. How they love dressing up and doing homage. Look at them!
- Mrs. Dalloway: [thinking, voice over] That young man killed himself, but I don't pity him. I'm somehow glad he could do it, throw it away. It's made me feel the beauty - somehow very like him - less afraid.
- Mrs. Dalloway: [thinking, voice over] Mrs. Dalloway, Mrs. Dalloway, and not even Clarissa anymore. No more marrying, no more having children, just Mrs. Dalloway. Mrs. Richard Dalloway who is to give a party.
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