– If you say to me when were you happiest.
– Mum…
– Tell me the moment you were happiest.
– I know! I know, it was years ago.
– Yeah.
– All you’re saying is you were once young.
– I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility! You know, That feeling? And…and I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts! And, of course, there’ll always be more. Never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.
THE HOURS (2002)