“And I suspect that, to the eyes of love, love shows. I knew about you as well as about myself, almost from… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Oh I daresay she can't help it - she's one of the women who oughn't be loved too kindly when they are… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“I had found out in that glittering corridor off the ballroom that being with him could be more painful than being away… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“If someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me - and I long to mention it myself.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“I suddenly knew it wasn't only the wonderful luxury of being in love that had been buoying me up: deep down, in… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“I couldn't make it out - why you ever let me, I mean. I understand now. Things like that happen when you're… — 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
“I leaned against the carved banisters and listened to the music and felt quite different from any way I have ever felt… — 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
“It can't be immoral to love anyone -- as long as one doesn't hurt anyone by it.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“It is part of a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing . . . it isn't a very good… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. — 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
“... it seemed an awful waste that we weren't in love with each other.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on.… — 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
