Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle

Quotes

• “I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.”
• “Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”
• “Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
• “Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”
• “I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
• “I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”
• “Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.”