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 Smitha loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
Dodie SmithWhat is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?
Dodie SmithJust 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 Smith