Family Quote by Dodie Smith

“I never knew what sad work the reading of old-letters was before that evening, though I could hardly tell why. The letters were as…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She heard them stamping and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Time passed in brewing tea, the odd remark, cigarettes, then dawn came up. The widening light caught the plumage of quails and partridges...and quickly…

— Nicolas Bouvier

“Stephen watched the three glasses being raised from the counter as his father and his two cronies drank to the memory of their past.…

— James Joyce

“that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong…

— Jane Austen

“Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people who rose…

— John Grogan

“He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness…

— Evan S. Connell

“Yet I have learned. In chronicles of sorrow, too, there are joys, In lesions of silence, immeasurable noise. And certainly in the very pit…

— Amal Khan

“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than when reading…

— Jane Austen

“Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing.”

— Amy Alznauer

“She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to…

— Jane Austen

“I left my novels for better times, when I could dedicate the energy and enjoy the inspiration I feel while planning them; like the…

— Sahara Sanders