Hollyjordan

“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment...

That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle