"I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer (
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
I'm Philippa, 24, and I'm from London.
“ Wakings are the worst times - almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on to my heart.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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“ …every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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“ 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, but I don’t suppose many people try to do it.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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