Quote by Dodie Smith Download Open image ““It was a rather dreadful thought but somehow comforting.”” — Dodie Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.” — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
“I understood very little of what was going on, and I felt as though only dying would release me from the overwhelming sense of… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things just happened.… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“I was having thoughts and feelings I knew I shouldn't be having, and it was scaring the shit out of me.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that I was suddenly in the presence of incosolable, unavoidable, and immense pain. The thought of that death hunted me… — Hélène Berr Copy Share Image
“And maybe I was coping awfully well, I don’t know. Certainly I wasn’t howling aloud or punching my fist through windows or doing any… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.” — Robin Hobb 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