“There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.”
Source: I Capture the Castle
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Dodie Smith 49
English novelist and playwright 1896–1990Related quotes

The Law of Mind (1892)
Context: Some minds will jump here jump to the conclusion that a past idea cannot in any sense be present. But that is hasty and illogical. How extravagant too, to pronounce our whole knowledge of the past to be mere delusion! Yet it would seem that the past is completely beyond the bounds of possible experience as a Kantian thing-in-itself.

“To jump over centuries in one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, you’ll be way too late.”
”In the Silence of the Century,” p. 60
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Warden with No Keys”

“So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.”
About the origin of his interest in biology in an "Interview with George Gamow", by Charles Weiner at Professor Gamow's home in Boulder, Colorado (25 April 1968)

Variant: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.