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.
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...
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.
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
Had I known, that last hour sitting there, talking and laughing about trivial things, that there was a clot forming like a time bomb close to his heart, ready to explode, I would surely have behaved d...
Good pictures, good furniture and fittings, are all sound investments.
For all the unpleasant suggestion that it conjured, it was the one room in the inn that had vitality, and was not morne and drear. The other rooms appeared neglected or unused; even the parlor by the...
First love is not always happy. It can sometimes be like a terrible illness.
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.
De Manderley no hablaríamos, ni yo le contaría mi sueño. Porque Manderley ya no era nuestro; Manderley ya no existe.
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...
Children's tears are very near the surface, and come at the first crisis.
Charles said, I haven’t looked at the Acrostic. A word of nine letters in the crossword caught my attention. Oh, what was that? An invertebrate animal preying upon the body of another animal. Niall st...
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.
Bitterness goes with people when they die.
Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.
And, though there should be a world of difference between the smile of a man and the bared fangs of a wolf, with Joss Merlyn they were one and the same.
And all this, she thought, is only momentary, is only a fragment in time that will never come again, for yesterday already belongs to the past and is ours no longer, and tomorrow is an unknown thing t...
An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel he said at length.The trouble is that it is less impersonal.
An armchair is always an armchair, to the modern child, never a ship, never a desert island. The pattern on the wall are patterns; not characters whose faces change at dusk... The trouble is, the chil...