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81 " He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively. "
― Dodie Smith , I Capture the Castle
82 " Art could state very little - it's whole business is to evoke responses. "
83 " Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows. "
84 " ... I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world. "
85 " All I really want to write about is what happened just before he left. But if I let myself start with that I might forget some of the things which came first. And every word he said is of deepest value to me. "
86 " ...perhaps it is loving that counts, not the being loved in return- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. "
87 " It is odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. "
88 " People do look different with their eyes closed, their features seem so much more sculptured. "
89 " When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing a book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. "
90 " And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is. "
91 " ... but it is always dreadful when the pictures in front of one's eyes become meaningless and the real word is there instead and seems meaningless, too. "
92 " My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher? "
93 " As long as I live I shall remember that silent minute. "
94 " ... it seemed an awful waste that we weren't in love with each other. "
95 " How can a young man like to wear a beard? "
96 " I am surprised to see how much I have written; with stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down. "
97 " There used to be two of us always on the look-out for life, talking to Miss Blossom at night, wondering, hoping; two Bronte-Jane Austen girls, poor but spirited, two Girls of Godsend Castle. "
98 " She will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner. "
99 " At least we're companions in misfortune "
100 " I wasn't merely remembering, it seemed to be trapped inside my eyelids. "