“ Suddenly I saw a clearing in the dark drive ahead, and a patch of sky, and in a moment the dark trees had thinned, the nameless shrubs had disappeared, and on either side of us was a wall of colour, b… Daphne du Maurier
“ I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.''You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.''For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five. Daphne du Maurier
“ How young and inexperienced I must have seemed, and how I felt it, too. One was too sensitive, too raw, there were thorns and pin-pricks in so many words that in reality fell lightly on air. Daphne du Maurier
“ He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now. Daphne du Maurier
“ He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed shoes and worsted hose. His face was arresting, sensitive,… Daphne du Maurier
“ Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy. Daphne du Maurier
“ As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before. Daphne du Maurier
“ A mock trial was set in motion, and the mayor Montlibert forced to interrogate the prisoners. It was obvious, even to someone like myself who knew nothing of the law, that none of the men had done wro… Daphne du Maurier
“ You have qualities that are just as important, far more so, in fact. It's perhaps cheeky of me to say so, I don't know you very well. I'm a bachelor, I don't know very much about women, I lead a quiet… Daphne du Maurier
“ With Rebecca we enter a world of dreams and daydreams, but they always threaten to tip over into nightmare. Daphne du Maurier
“ When I lie I like to base the lie on a foundation of fact, for it appeases not only conscience but a sense of justice. Daphne du Maurier
“ We would make all sorts of promises to the cuisinière, and to the daily femme de chambre, saying, We’ll be back again next year, knowing in our hearts that it would not be so. We never took the same v… Daphne du Maurier
“ We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment… Daphne du Maurier
“ They were ageless, they were sexless, they were neither male nor female, old or young, but the beauty of their faces, and of their bodies too, was more stirring and exciting than anything I had ever s… Daphne du Maurier
“ They went and stood together by the bed. They had wrapped Pappy in one of the hospital nightshirts, and it was somehow shocking and rather terrible to see Pappy dressed in this way, not in his own paj… Daphne du Maurier
