And they went further and further from her, being attached to her by a thin thread (since they had lunched with her) which would stretch and stretch, get thinner and thinner as they walked across London; as if one’s friends were attached to one’s body, after lunching with them, by a thin thread, which (as she dozed there) became hazy with the sound of hells, striking the hour or ringing to service, as a single spider’s thread is blotted with rain-drops, and, burdened, sags down.
— Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (via thechocolatebrigade)
