I Capture the Castle

And surely I could give him – a sort of contentment?
That isn’t enough to give. Not for the giver.

art could state very little – that its whole business was to evoke responses

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

you love people, you take them on trust.

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

I was only expecting bread and margarine for tea, and I don’t get as used to margarine as I could wish. I thank heaven there is no cheaper form of bread than bread.

Jane Austen wrote in the sitting-room and merely covered up her work when a visitor called (though I bet she thought a thing or two) —but I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.

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,

with stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down. But words are very inadequate-anyway, my words are