I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

ridiculous that I should have this dull, heavy, not exactly unhappy but – well, no kind of feeling when I ought to be blissfully happy.

to think he was temperamentally morose

am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but

What I’d really hate would be the settled feeling, with nothing but happiness to look forward to. Of course no life is perfectly happy – Rose’s

homecoming sense of recognition? It seems to me now that the whole day was like an avenue leading to a home I had loved once but forgotten, the memory of which was coming back so dimly,

seemed to live in every inch of my body as fully as I usually do in my head and my hands and my heart. I had the fascinating feeling that I could think as easily with my limbs as with my brain