“There's nothing more, except that I usually sit down until the flames die down and try to think myself back into the… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“I still didn't believe him. And for the moment, I didn't much care one way or the other. My whole mind had… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“While I have been writing I have lived in the past, the light of it has been all around me...” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the effect wears off in time, or perhaps you don't notice it if you are born with it, but it does… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“...I was going to give the farewell call – a farewell for ever this time, not just for a year. The call is… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“I glanced through another page in case I had missed something, and came to the description of Simon's face as he lay on the… — Dodie Smith Copy Share
They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here,… — Dodie Smith Copy Share
“Now, paper and pencils," said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands. Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing… — Dodie Smith Copy Share
It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts... — Dodie Smith Copy Share
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them. — Dodie Smith Copy Share
“And I suspect that, to the eyes of love, love shows. I knew about you as well as about myself, almost from the beginning.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share
“What I'd really hate would be the settled feeling, with nothing but happiness to look forward to. Of course no life is perfectly happy-… — Dodie Smith Copy Share
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look… — Dodie Smith Copy Share
“There are some people who always find beauty makes them feel sadder, which is a very mysterious thing.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share
“You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach." I told him I hadn't at school. The one Bach piece I… — Dodie Smith Copy Share
When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe. — Dodie Smith Copy Share
