Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

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[P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return---that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness

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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!

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When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting

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When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending---I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters

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I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them,