“What I'd really hate would be the settled feeling, with nothing but happiness to look forward to. Of course no life is… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“...[H]e's so good and good people are usually happy. But do happy things happen to the good, or can the good make… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“So much of me longs to run after him and cry, 'Yes, yes, yes!' A few hours ago, when I wrote I… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Oh my dear, dear Stephen, how can I ever repay you for such unselfishness? But the happiness you hoped to win for… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“... I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“I feel quite unreasonably happy this minute, watching them both; knowing I can go and join them in the warmth, yet staying… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Is it wrong for me to feel so happy? Perhaps I ought even to feel guilty? No. I didn't make it happen,… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“...perhaps it is loving that counts, not the being loved in return- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“I think it worthy of note that I never felt happier in my life - despite sorrow for Father, pity for Rose,… — 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
