"October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke."

“I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.”

“Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.”

“But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.560, Random House

“At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.”

“Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.”

Source : Deborah Feldman (2014). “Exodus: A Memoir”, p.75, Penguin

“It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.”

“Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.”