I still didn't believe him. And for the moment, I didn't much care one way or the other. My whole mind had swung back to Simon.

Dodie Smith

Tags: consuming-thoughts



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What is this insurmountable barrier round him? What's it made of? Where did it come from?

Dodie Smith


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He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.

Dodie Smith


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It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.
Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

Dodie Smith

Tags: heaven marriage heartache



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A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

Dodie Smith

Tags: melancholy sadness



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I had found out in that glittering corridor off the ballroom that being with him could be more painful than being away from him.

Dodie Smith

Tags: love



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I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Dodie Smith

Tags: unrequited-love longing



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I felt as I did once when Rose had very bad toothache - that it was callous of me to be so separate from the pain, that just being sorry for suffering people isn't enough.

Dodie Smith


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God - it's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going and what it's all about

Dodie Smith

Tags: god



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Is it wrong for me to feel so happy? Perhaps I ought even to feel guilty? No. I didn't make it happen, and it can't hurt anyone but me. Surely I have a right to my joy. For as long as it lasts...

Dodie Smith


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