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Sally is a public television producer who is in a long-term partnership with Clarissa, with whom she has a daughter, Julia. Sally was also the name of the woman in Mrs. Dalloway whom Clarissa Dalloway loved but couldn’t be with, so in many ways, this timeline of the novel stands as a modern-day, hypothetical scenario that imagines how life might have been if Clarissa Dalloway had ended up with Sally rather than staying with her husband, Richard. Sally and Clarissa do indeed have perhaps the most supportive relationship of the three main relationships in the novel, but even they have secrets, with Clarissa longing for the past she shared with her old friend Richard, and with Sally making Clarissa feel excluded when Sally gets involved in the world of show business (even though Sally herself sometimes feels out of her element around industry people like Oliver St. Ives).
Sally Quotes in The Hours
The The Hours quotes below are all either spoken by Sally or refer to Sally. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1: Mrs. Dalloway
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There are still the flowers to buy. Clarissa feigns exasperation (though she loves doing errands like this), leaves Sally cleaning the bathroom, and runs out, promising to be back in half an hour.
It is New York City. It is the end of the twentieth century.
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Chapter 8: Mrs. Dalloway
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How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she’d tried to remain with him; if she’d returned Richard’s kiss on the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal, gone off somewhere (where?) with him, never bought the packet of incense or the alpaca coat with the rose-shaped buttons. Couldn’t they have discovered something…larger and stranger than what they’ve got?
Chapter 16: Mrs. Dalloway
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Sally hands the flowers to her and for a moment they are both simply and entirely happy. They are present, right now, and they have managed, somehow, over the course of eighteen years, to continue loving each other. It is enough. At this moment, it is enough.
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Chapter 22: Mrs. Dalloway
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They settle into another silence, one that is neither intimate nor particularly uncomfortable. Here she is, then, Clarissa thinks; here is the woman from Richard’s poetry. Here is the lost mother, the thwarted suicide; here is the woman who walked away. It is both shocking and comforting that such a figure could, in fact, prove to be an ordinary-looking old woman seated on a sofa with her hands in her lap.
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And here she is, herself, Clarissa, not Mrs. Dalloway anymore; there is no one now to call her that. Here she is with another hour before her.
“Come in, Mrs. Brown,” she says. “Everything’s ready.”
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Sally Quotes in The Hours
The The Hours quotes below are all either spoken by Sally or refer to Sally. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 1: Mrs. Dalloway
Quotes
There are still the flowers to buy. Clarissa feigns exasperation (though she loves doing errands like this), leaves Sally cleaning the bathroom, and runs out, promising to be back in half an hour.
It is New York City. It is the end of the twentieth century.
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Chapter 8: Mrs. Dalloway
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How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she’d tried to remain with him; if she’d returned Richard’s kiss on the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal, gone off somewhere (where?) with him, never bought the packet of incense or the alpaca coat with the rose-shaped buttons. Couldn’t they have discovered something…larger and stranger than what they’ve got?
Chapter 16: Mrs. Dalloway
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Sally hands the flowers to her and for a moment they are both simply and entirely happy. They are present, right now, and they have managed, somehow, over the course of eighteen years, to continue loving each other. It is enough. At this moment, it is enough.
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Chapter 22: Mrs. Dalloway
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They settle into another silence, one that is neither intimate nor particularly uncomfortable. Here she is, then, Clarissa thinks; here is the woman from Richard’s poetry. Here is the lost mother, the thwarted suicide; here is the woman who walked away. It is both shocking and comforting that such a figure could, in fact, prove to be an ordinary-looking old woman seated on a sofa with her hands in her lap.
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And here she is, herself, Clarissa, not Mrs. Dalloway anymore; there is no one now to call her that. Here she is with another hour before her.
“Come in, Mrs. Brown,” she says. “Everything’s ready.”
