I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

And I 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.

have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold.

miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.

But I wish I could have had that food when I wasn’t at a party, because you can’t notice food fully when you are being polite.

A thousand pounds for clothes—when one thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! Oddly, I have never thought of us as poor people—I mean, I have never been terribly sorry for us, as for the unemployed or beggars; though really we have been rather worse off, being unemployable and with no one to beg from.

But it struck me that if a man is going queer in the head, he is the last person to mention it to.