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
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
And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa,… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt. — 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 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 shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea. — 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