“ The relief was tremendous. I did not feel sick anymore. The pain had gone...I had no idea I was so empty. Daphne du Maurier
“ The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday and take back to school again signed by one of our parents. The reason I did so w… Daphne du Maurier
“ Tact was a quality unknown to her, discretion too, and because gossip was the breath of life to her this stranger must be served for her dissection. Daphne du Maurier
“ Something within each one of us had been awakened that we had not known was there; some dream, desire, or doubt, flickered into life by that same rumor, took root, and flourished. We were none of us t… Daphne du Maurier
“ She would have stood by Giles’s side, and shaken hands with people, a smile on her face. I could not do that. I had not the pride, I had not the guts. I was badly bred. Daphne du Maurier
“ Richard turned and saw me. And as he looked at me it was as if my whole heart moved over in my body and was mine no longer Daphne du Maurier
“ Pierre and I refused to allow my mother to visit her son in prison. She remained in the house with Cathie and little Jacques, but we went ourselves, and I felt as if I were back again in the theater f… Daphne du Maurier
“ Pero Rebeca no envejecería. Siempre sería la misma. Ella y yo no podíamos luchar. Era demasiado fuerte para mí. Daphne du Maurier
“ Our minds had met and crossed and understood from the first moment when Victor introduced us in my club, and that queer, inexplicable bond of the heart, breaking through every barrier, every restraint… Daphne du Maurier
“ Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession anymore. It was something to be traded, bought, and sold. It fetched a high price, o… Daphne du Maurier
“ No. Monsieur Ledru mused, as though he had but half heard. Then with a start: Oh, but most certainly not. No, it is rather a heaviness upon the mind—a weight as of lead upon brain and thoughts, while… Daphne du Maurier
“ Niall never really knew which; but he used to lie in bed until she returned in the middle of the day, and he read every one of the works of Maupassant, the book in one hand and a bar of chocolate in t… Daphne du Maurier
“ My brother Jem, damn him, he was the baby. Hanging onto mother’s skirts when Matt and I were grown men. I never did see eye to eye with Jem. Too smart he is, too sharp with his tongue. Oh, they’ll cat… Daphne du Maurier
“ Men and women were like the animals on the farm at Helford, she supposed; there was a common law of attraction for all living things, some similarity of skin or touch, and they would go to one another… Daphne du Maurier
“ Mary’s mother turned to her and said, There’s something of me gone in the grave with poor Nell, Mary. I don’t know whether it’s my faith or what it is, but my heart feels tired and I can’t go on anymo… Daphne du Maurier
“ Little notes, scrawled on half-sheets of paper, and letters, when he was away, page after page, intimate, news. Her voice, echoing through the house, and down the garden, careless and familiar like t… Daphne du Maurier
“ La felicidad no es un bien que pueda atesorarse; es una manera de pensar, un estado de ánimo. Daphne du Maurier
“ Jake did not say anything; he looked up at the sky and the wall of gray mist ahead of us, he watched the stern of the Romanie lift sluggishly to the high sea. Dick, he said later, do you notice how sh… Daphne du Maurier
“ It’s queer, she said, but I don’t feel this is happening to me at all. This is some other person going through my day. It’s a dreadful feeling. I can’t explain it Daphne du Maurier
