“ I thought of all those heroines of fiction of who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes. Daphne du Maurier
“ I don't want to love like a woman or feel like a woman, Mr Davey; there's pain that way, and suffering, and misery that can last a lifetime. I didn't bargain for this; I don't want it. Daphne du Maurier
“ I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. Daphne du Maurier
“ I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations. Daphne du Maurier
“ He was not staring at her anymore. He was still. He had gone. The moment of truth had vanished forever, and she would never know. What had happened was Then, was already past, in some other dimension… Daphne du Maurier
“ He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him. Nature cared nothing for prejudice. Men and women were like the animals on the farm at Helford, she supposed… Daphne du Maurier
“ He leaned over the rail and stared down into the Pool with interest. It was certainly not much of a place, the water dark and rather slimy, the steps slippery-looking too. Grandfather must be right, a… Daphne du Maurier
“ He can’t get rid of me, he can’t shake himself clear. It has happened all my life, this business of clinging to people, of getting too fond of them. Daphne du Maurier
“ Es inútil, ¿verdad? Nunca la podrá vencer. Está muerta, pero aún manda aquí. Ella es la señora de verdad, y no usted. Aquien olvidan y dan de lado y rechazan... es a usted. ¿Por qué no se va de Mander… Daphne du Maurier
“ Don’t be silly. Now, watch… Very slowly Maria pushed the comforter into Caroline’s mouth. It acted as a sort of gag. Caroline sucked noisily, and closed her eyes. The effect was magic. The crying ceas… Daphne du Maurier
“ Did you never try, I asked, to make some life of happiness?Happiness was not in question, he said; that went with you, a factor you refused to recognise. Daphne du Maurier
“ Death should be different. It should be like bidding farewell to someone at a station before a long journey, but without the strain. Daphne du Maurier
“ Daphne du Maurier was the fifth-generation descendant of a French master craftsman who settled in England during the Revolution. The Glass-Blowers, the fictionalized story of his family, was originall… Daphne du Maurier
“ But you. I can't forget what it has done to you. I was looking at you, thinking of nothing else through lunch. It's gone forever, that funny, young, lost look that I loved. It won't come back again. Daphne du Maurier
“ And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the agony beyond all enduring, because after the beauty and the loveliness comes the sorrow and t… Daphne du Maurier
“ And so, the Colonel was saying, the Mandate was handed over to the U.N. in May, and we were all out of the country by July 1st. To my mind we should have stayed. The whole thing has been a bloody nons… Daphne du Maurier
“ And she passed through the stage door and was inside the theater. Her heart was still beating fast, and her hands were burning, but she felt steadier suddenly, the feeling of panic had gone from her.… Daphne du Maurier
