Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long w... - Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

"I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness."

"Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me."

"I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt."

"Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can."

"I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life."