The New Moon with the Old Quotes

“...[H]e's so good and good people are usually happy. But do happy things happen to the good, or can the good make happiness out of unhappiness?”
― Dodie Smith, The New Moon with the Old

“How indescribable the scent of autumn flowers was– barely a scent at all, really; just a faint, strange smell, pleasant but sad. Could a smell be sad or was it just the association with the dying summer?”
― Dodie Smith, The New Moon with the Old

“Our Clare doesn't much care for real life,' Drew told Jane. 'What she needs is to live in a book– the kind that no longer gets written.”
― Dodie Smith, The New Moon with the Old