Thereby she defines her humanity.

Watching The Hours, it gives you that sense of touch – you feel for the characters and you wonder why they choose suicide. Intense emotional acting, and definitely a thought-provoking show, with a little surprise.

Virginia Woolf: 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. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness.

[pause]

But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death.

Simply delightful. And when she writes a goodbye letter to her husband:

Virginia Woolf: Dear Leonard, To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it, for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always…the hours…

And today, I’ve also learnt that trying to reason and joke around with a girl in some mood swing - the same ways I do with other guys - produces disastrous results.