“All my life I could do anything, except the one thing I wanted.”

The Hours [movie]

“If I were thinking clearly, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark. And that only I can know, only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too. 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.”

The Hours [movie]

“My life has been stolen from me.... I wish I could be happy in this peaceful place. But if I had to choose between Richmond and death, I choose death.... You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.”

The Hours [movie] Recommended by Rachel.