On happiness


'I remember one morning, getting up at dawn,' Clarissa Vaughn tells her daughter Julia. 'There was such a sense of possibility. I remember thinking: 'This is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And, of course, there'll always be more.' It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning: It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.

~ Clarissa Vaughnn in The Hours (2002), on happiness