Mrs Dalloway

“What does the brain matter,” said Lady Rosseter, getting up, “compared with the heart?”

“I will come,” said Peter, but he sat on for a moment. What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself.

What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement?

It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was …

  • from Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf