It is part of a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing . . . it isn't a very good game; the people you play it with are apt to get hurt.
Dodie SmithTag: love
She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.
Dodie SmithMr. Dearly wasn't exactly handsome but he had the kind of face you don't get tired of.
Dodie SmithAnd who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.
Dodie SmithTag: philosophical
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 SmithTag: insanity
All of a sudden we saw a high, round tower in the distance, on a little hill. Father instantly decided that we must explore it, though mother wasn't enthusiastic. It was difficult to find because the little roads twisted and woods and villages kept hiding it from us, but every few minutes we caught a glimpse of it.
Dodie SmithShe will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner.
Dodie SmithThere used to be two of us always on the look-out for life, talking to Miss Blossom at night, wondering, hoping; two Bronte-Jane Austen girls, poor but spirited, two Girls of Godsend Castle.
Dodie SmithI have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house.
Dodie SmithI glanced through another page in case I had missed something, and came to the description of Simon's face as he lay on the grass with his eyes closed. It gave me a stab in which happiness and misery were somehow a part of each other.
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