Virginia Woolf: I am saying, Vanessa, that even crazy people like to be asked.
Kitty: Oh, you're reading a book? Laura Brown: Yeah. Kitty: What's this one about? Laura Brown: Oh, it's about this woman who's incredibly - well, she's a hostess and she's incredibly confident and she's going to give a party. And, maybe because she'...
Richard Brown: Just wait till I die. Then you'll have to think of yourself. How are you going to like that?
Virginia Woolf: I was going to kill my heroine. But I've changed my mind. I fear I may have to kill someone else, instead.
Virginia Woolf: Leonard, I believe I may have a first sentence.
Virginia Woolf: A woman's whole life in a single day. Just one day. And in that day her whole life.
Virginia Woolf: Do you think I may one day escape? Vanessa Bell: One day.
Vanessa Bell: Virginia. Virginia Woolf: Leonard thinks it's the end of civilization: People who are invited at 4 and arrive at 2:30. Vanessa Bell: Oh God. Virginia Woolf: Barbarians.
Vanessa Bell: Your aunt is a very lucky woman Angelica. She has two lives. The life she is living, and the book she is writing.
Virginia Woolf: Im dying in this town!
Clarissa Vaughn: I don't know what's happening to me. I seemed to be unraveling.
Clarissa Vaughn: He gives me that look. Julia: What look? Clarissa Vaughn: To say your life is trivial. You are so trivial.
Richard Brown: Who is this party for? Clarissa Vaughan: What are you asking, what are you trying to say? Richard Brown: I'm not trying to say anything. I think I'm staying alive just to satisfy you.
Virginia Woolf: Say something, Nessa! Didn't you think I seemed better?
Richard Brown: I had this wonderful notion. I took the Xanax and the Ritalin together. It had never occurred to me!
Richard Brown: I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.
Angelica Bell: What were you thinking about? Virginia Woolf: I was going to kill my heroine. But I've changed my mind.
Laura Brown: We're baking the cake to show him that we love him. Richie Brown: Otherwise he won't know we love him? Laura Brown: That's right.
