“ It wasn’t like that for us, said Niall, all bright, and clean, and purged and commonplace. Plastic toys. Things that go in and out. Perhaps it was, said Maria; perhaps we don’t remember. I do remember… Daphne du Maurier
“ It was a day to be inside somewhere, cosseted and loved; by a warm fireside with the clatter of friendly cups and saucers, a sleepy cat licking his paws, a cyclamen in a pot on a windowsill putting fo… Daphne du Maurier
“ It has always seemed to me significant that Robert’s first memories, whenever he spoke of them, should not be of the farmhouse le Maurier, or of the lowing of cattle, the scratching of hens and other… Daphne du Maurier
“ In December the first frosts came with the full moon, and then my nights of vigil held a quality harder to bear. There was a sort of beauty to them, cold and clear, that caught at the heart and made m… Daphne du Maurier
“ If it must be so, let’s not weep nor complain If I have failed, or you, or life turned sullen. We have had these things, they do not come again, But the flag still flies and the city has not fallen. H… Daphne du Maurier
“ I wondered if it was the same in every home, this feeling of exuberance when visitors had gone. Daphne du Maurier
“ I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each other and, with a common grief, grow far apart. There must be something in the nature of love betwe… Daphne du Maurier
“ I loved you too much, wanted you too much, had for you too great a tenderness. Now all of this is like a twisted root in my heart, a deadly poison in my brain. You have made of me a madman. You fill m… Daphne du Maurier
“ I do lie about, she said, from time to time. The trouble is I go off everyone so quickly. I soon get bored. Bored with the things they say? Or with the things they do? With the things they do. I never… Daphne du Maurier
“ I confess I found myself disenchanted. We hardly moved from this quarter, so crowded, so ill-smelling, among the poorest of the people, and when we did walk out it was only to call at the various ware… Daphne du Maurier
“ Her face was not done, as Maria would have said. It was just her face. The skin was soft and smooth, and there were little lines at the corner of her eyes that did not show as a rule, and at the corne… Daphne du Maurier
“ He argued the course of direction during the full seventy miles of the drive. The fact that his map was eighteenth century did not fluster him Daphne du Maurier
“ Grown-up people… How suddenly would it happen, the final plunge into their world? Did it really come about overnight, as Pappy said, between sleeping and waking? A day would come, a day like any other… Daphne du Maurier
“ Bread was their main fare—they could not afford meat—and a man earning at the rate of one livre or twenty sous a day, with a hungry family to feed, paid half his wages on bread alone. Daphne du Maurier
“ As soon as his laughter died away the smile faded from Aunt Patience’s face, and the strained, haunted expression returned again, the fixed, almost idiot stare that she wore habitually in the presence… Daphne du Maurier
“ Houve um excesso de melodrama na minha vida, e daria tudo para conservar a paz e a tranquilidade conquistadas. A Felicidade não é uma coisa concreta – é uma qualidade do pensamento, um estado de espír… Daphne du Maurier
“ When speaking, Aunt Patience avoided her eyes, and the very fluency of her words was in itself suspicious. She spoke much as a child does who tells herself a story and has a talent for invention. It h… Daphne du Maurier
“ A silence on the tors that belonged to another age; an age that is past and vanished as though it had never been, an age when man did not exist, but pagan footsteps trod upon the hills. And there was… Daphne du Maurier
“ You talked to me of being young, I said to Jake, you talked this evening on the bridge of losing something I would never understand. Don’t you see what all that has meant to me? I was a boy without th… Daphne du Maurier
