Jennifer

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?"

He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.”
― H.P. Lovecraft