Laura Brown: It's a terrible thing, to outlive your entire family.
 • Movie: The Hours • Rating: Unrated • Permalink

---

Laura Brown: Obviously, you... feel unworthy. Gives you feelings of unworthiness. You survive and they don't.
 • Movie: The Hours • Rating: Unrated • Permalink

---

Laura Brown: It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. There it is. No one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life.
 • Movie: The Hours • Rating: 10.0 / 10 • Permalink

---

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's confident, everyone thinks she's fine... but she isn't.
 • Movie: The Hours • Rating: Unrated • Permalink

---

Laura Brown: Baby. Baby, you have to be brave now.
 • Movie: The Hours • Rating: Unrated • Permalink

---

Laura Brown: Don't worry, honey. Everything's fine. We're going to have a wonderful party. We've made Daddy such a nice cake.
 • Movie: The Hours • Rating: Unrated • Permalink

---

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.
 • Movie: The Hours • Rating: Unrated • Permalink

---

[in 1921]
Virginia Woolf: [writing in her book] Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
[in 1951]
Laura Brown: [reading in bed] Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
[in 2001]
Clarissa Vaughan: Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself.
[waking up]
Sally Lester: What? What flowers?
[realizing]
Sally Lester: Oh, s**t! I forgot!
 • Movie: The Hours • Rating: Unrated • Permalink

---