“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”

“Oh, Mrs. Dalloway. Always giving parties to cover the silence.”

“That she held herself well was true; and had nice hands and feet; and dressed well, considering that she spent little. But often now this body she wore (she stopped to look at a Dutch picture), this body, with all its capacities, seemed nothing - nothing at all. She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown; there being no more marrying, no more having of children now, but only this astonishing and rather solemn progress with the rest of them, up Bond Street, this being Mrs. Dalloway, not even Clarissa any more; this being Mrs. Richard Dalloway.”

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

“Tinha a esquisita sensação de estar invisível; despercebida; desconhecida; de não ser mais casada, não ter mais filhos agora, apenas aquela espantosa e um tanto solene marcha com os demais, por Bond Street, ser esta Sra. Dalloway; nem mais Clarissa: Sra. Dalloway somente.”

“I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.”