“There are some people who always find beauty makes them feel sadder, which is a very mysterious thing.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he found beauty saddening – I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh! — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Topaz is beautiful - largely because of the strangeness of her face.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“I wish I could find words--serious, beautiful words--to describe it in the afternoon sunlight; the more I strive for them, the more… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“...he talked quite naturally while we ate — about the difficulty of finding words to describe the luminous mist, and why one… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“There are some people who always find beauty makes them feel sadder, which is a very mysterious thing.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
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