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 SmithThey call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.
Dodie SmithAnd who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.
Dodie SmithFather says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
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