Nicole Kidman’s voice-over of a note Virginia left for her husband:
“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.”

Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) as she recalls how in her young adulthood she woke up one day feeling the world was full of possibility and thought:
“So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And, of course, there will always be more.” Then she laughs ruefully and goes on to say, “It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment … right then.”