"The Hours" Quotes

We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes.

It had seemed so foreign to her then, to be in love. It was a condition she'd only heard about, a word whose definition she knew but could not personally fathom.

Everything was all right, and I was utterly happy.

And so I stood there, in the middle of the morning, on a day that was just like any other day, and felt desperate, and was so grateful for it.

I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness.

I wanted to tell you that I was in love with you. I wanted to say I was in love the way one might say I'm in the mood for a cheeseburger.

I want so badly to be happy, and I only know that I am not.

I don't want to die. Even now, I still want to live.

I think I should be angry, but mostly what I feel is very, very afraid.

I feel like I'm the night sky, and everything else is just the stars.