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Which character in "The Hours" said...

So you think you are a fan of "The Hours." Let's see how well you know it. Match the following lines with the characters that spoke them. Can you get them all right?

  1. I am ungrateful? You call me ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in. I'm living a life I have no wish to live. How did this happen?

  2. All my life I could do everything. I could do anything, really. Except the one thing I wanted.

  3. I am saying, Vanessa, that even crazy people like to be asked.

  4. Just wait till I die. Then you'll have to think of yourself. How are you going to like that?

  5. I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

  6. The thought of this life, that's what kept me going. I had an idea of our happiness.

  7. Obviously, you feel unworthy. Gives you feelings of unworthiness. You survive and they don't.

  8. It's on this day. This day of all days. Her fate becomes clear to her.

  9. There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan. The plan was I would leave my family when my second child was born. And that's what I did. I got up one morning, made breakfast, went to the bus stop, got on a bus. I'd left a note. I got a job in a library in Canada. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. When I'm with him I feel... Yes, I am living. And when I'm not with him... Yes, everything does seem sort of silly.

  12. So that's the monster.