“ I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. They are not brave, the days when we are twenty one. They are so full of li… Daphne du Maurier
“ Her uncle had ridden away on the moors somewhere, and a sense of freedom possessed her whenever he was gone. Daphne du Maurier
“ Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive -- c… Daphne du Maurier
“ A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work. Daphne du Maurier
“ The little happy trivialities of a normal happy life: gossip with the neighbours, and church on Sundays, and driving into market once a week; fruitpicking, and harvest-time. Daphne du Maurier
“ Where do they go, Sophie, those younger selves of ours? How do they vanish and dissolve?’ ‘They don’t,’ I said. ‘They’re with us always, like little shadows, ghosting us through life. Daphne du Maurier
“ We change from the awakening questing creatures we were once, afire with wonder, and expectancy, and doubt, to persons of opinion and authority, our habits formed, our characters moulded in a pattern Daphne du Maurier
“ Was it true the lovely part of love only lasted a moment and the sorrow went on for a lifetime? Daphne du Maurier
“ This house sheltered us, we spoke, we lived within those walls. That was yesterday. Daphne du Maurier
“ They were all gone, these other selves, and they would never come back again.They had vanished, like little thoughts and little dreams, poor has-beens that had lived in me and I in them, now thrown aw… Daphne du Maurier
“ There was something strangely peaceful about the house, something very rare and difficult to define. It was like a house in an old tale, discovered by the hero one evening in midsummer; there should b… Daphne du Maurier
“ There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the gray stone shining in the moonlight of my dream... Daphne du Maurier
“ The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me. Daphne du Maurier
“ The winter of 1789 was the hardest within living memory. No one, not even the old people of the district, had ever known anything like it. The cold weather set in early, and, coming on top of a bad ha… Daphne du Maurier
“ Tall and dark she was. She gave you the feeling of a snake. I seen her here with me own eyes. By night she'd come. Daphne du Maurier
“ Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, c… Daphne du Maurier
“ Mary Rose that did it. Mary Rose was a country girl. Always hiding up apple trees, and then disappearing on the island. She was a ghost, and Charles fell in love with the ghost. What did you fall in l… Daphne du Maurier
