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41 " Stew's so comforting on a rainy day. "
― Dodie Smith , I Capture the Castle
42 " Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me--and I long to mention it myself, I start subjects leading up to it, and then feel myself going red. I keep swearing to myself not to speak of him again- and then an opportunity occurs and I jump at it. "
43 " Once I really looked at the sky, I wanted to go on looking; it seemed to draw me towards it and make me listen hard, though there was nothing to listen to, not so much as a twig was stirring. "
44 " I wanted so terribly to be good to him. "
45 " And what I thought most about was luxury. I had never realised before that it is more than just having things; it makes the very air feel different. And I felt different, breathing the air: relaxed, lazy, still sad but with the edge taken off the sadness. Perhaps the effect wears off in time, or perhaps you don't notice it if you are born to it, but it does seem to me that the climate of richness must always be a little dulling to the senses. Perhaps it takes the edge off joy as well as off sorrow. "
46 " If someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me - and I long to mention it myself. I start subjects leading up to it, and then I feel myself going red. I keep swearing to myself not to speak to him again - and then an opportunity occurs and I jump at it! "
47 " I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea. "
48 " I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. "
49 " Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? "
50 " Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. "
51 " ...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself. "
52 " Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you. "
53 " 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. "
54 " I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... "
55 " Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. "
56 " Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. "
57 " So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy. "
58 " I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold "
59 " I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. "
60 " It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts... "