I Capture The Castle Quotes

“I don't want to miss anything.”
― Dodie Smith

“Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“But I can't see how anyone could believe that you killed the bear with a pitchfork,' I said.
'I didn't. I only wounded it - badly, I think, but not enough to put it out of action. It came blundering towards me, I stepped aside and it crashed head-first into the river - I could hear it threshing about in the darkness. I picked up a big stone - poor brute, I hated to do it but I had to finish it off. It gave just one groan as the stone hit it and then went down. I held the lantern high; I could see the bubbles coming up. And then I saw the dark bulk of it under the water, being carried along by the current.'
'But you didn't have a lantern,' I said.
'He didn't have a bear,' said Topaz.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“... And they are like a drug, one needs them oftener and oftener and has to make them more and more exciting - until at last one's imagination won't work at all.”
― Dodie Smith

“Wakings are the worst times - almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on to my heart.”
― Dodie Smith

“You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach."
I told him I hadn't at school. The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.”
― Dodie Smith