...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
Dodie SmithI wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?
Dodie SmithI could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
Dodie Smith