Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle (1948)

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There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

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I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

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I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

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Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

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Rose doesn't like the flat country, but I always did — flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

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Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

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I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making — it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.

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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.

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Ah, but you're the insidious type — Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

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I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

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What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

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I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

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My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.

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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.

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I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

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I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

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With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

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Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.

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Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

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And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

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Extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

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When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

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Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

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There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

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Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

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The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.

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