"I Capture the Castle" Quotes

Perhaps it is too simplistic to say that some people are drawn to the sea and others to the hills, but I do think that an affinity for one or the other often manifests itself at an early age.

I found myself staring at the dim rooftops opposite, thinking that all the bewilderment of the world would be simplified if one knew that there was a person somewhere who understood.

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

The night didn't want to die. It hung on, as though the rising sun were a mirage that might fade out at any moment.

Nothing's as cast-iron as it's thought to be. Life's just a series of rustic footbridges that need never be crossed.

Poetry's always astonished me, how you can say so much in a dozen lines.

You can’t see round corners, so to speak, but there must be something beyond them because they go round them, otherwise it wouldn’t be a corner.

What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied.

It might sound strange to be in love with a house, but how can a house be anything but dead? The people who live in it make it a home.

There was nothing to do now but lie down, listen to the rain and imagine myself swimming in the sea, which was unusually rough and called ‘disgusting’ by Aunt Cassandra.