“ Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding. Daphne du Maurier
“ I wanted to go back again, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that if we did it would not be the same. Daphne du Maurier
“ How am I to know? said Maria. People never tell one the truth, not the real truth. It may be all right tonight, and the notices may be good, and everybody be nice—but I shan’t really know. You’ll know… Daphne du Maurier
“ You are such a part of me that to stand alone leaves me dumb, without speech, without eyes. Life is valueless unless I can share everything with you – beauty, ugliness, pain. Daphne du Maurier
“ The unnamed narrator of Rebecca begins her story with a dream, with a first sentence that has become famous: Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again. Almost all the brief first chapter is devot… Daphne du Maurier
“ Poor whims of fancy, tender and unharsh. They are the enemy to bitterness and regret, and sweeten this exile we have brought upon ourselves. Daphne du Maurier
“ Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical, then the very knowledge that they belong to a past we have not known ourselves in… Daphne du Maurier
“ Mary wondered how many years Aunt Patience had kept that knowledge to herself in an agony of silence. No one would ever know how greatly she had suffered. Wherever she should go in the future, the pai… Daphne du Maurier
“ Les images défilaient par centaines derrière mes yeux fermés, chose vues, choses sues et choses oubliées. Daphne du Maurier
“ La cuestión es que la vida hay que soportarla y vivirla. Lo complicado es cómo vivirla. Daphne du Maurier
“ Je me sentais vaguement épuisée et me demandai, un peu choquée de ma cruauté, pourquoi les personnes âgées étaient si exténuantes. Pires que les jeunes enfants [...] car il fallait se montrer poli. Daphne du Maurier
“ I’ll not bide in Heaven, nor rest here in my grave. My spirit will linger with the ones I love—an’ when they’re sorrowful and feared in themselves, I’ll come to them; and God Himself won’t keep me. Daphne du Maurier
“ It's funny, I thought, how the routine of life goes on, whatever happens; we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust o… Daphne du Maurier
“ It was disturbing, like an enchanted place. I had not thought it could be as beautiful as this Daphne du Maurier
“ It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own we… Daphne du Maurier
“ In fact, one of the first decrees passed, the day after the storming of the Tuileries, was an order giving every municipality throughout the country the right to arrest suspects on sight. Daphne du Maurier
“ I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that freedom is the only thing that matters to me at all. Also utter irresponsibility! Never to have to obey any laws or rules, only certain standards one sets for… Daphne du Maurier
“ I would forget my own beating heart, my own trembling body, my own sense of inexpiable degradation. I got up and started to throw off my things. Then the door opened and Jake came into the cabin. I di… Daphne du Maurier
“ I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. Daphne du Maurier
