“ To him, the drug released the complex brew within the brain that served up the savored past. To me, it proved that the past was living still, that we were all participants, all witnesses. I was Roger,… Daphne du Maurier
“ Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real. Daphne du Maurier
“ These instruments are now made in bulk and used by doctors and chemists all over France, while my father’s name is forgotten, but a hundred years ago the instruments de chimie designed at la Brûlonner… Daphne du Maurier
“ There was some misunderstanding, she replied. Your uncle bought it through a friend. Mr. Bassat did not know who Uncle Joss was until we were settled in, and then he was not very pleased. Daphne du Maurier
“ The wild shouting, the laughter, and the singing with which they had fortified themselves for the journey would have been a relief, however loathsome; but this deadly quietude was sinister. Daphne du Maurier
“ The voice told me that it was my father who was to blame. He was responsible for this moment, this business of me dejected, helpless, sitting on the steps of the Sacré-Cœur. It was heredity, environme… Daphne du Maurier
“ The system might one day change, but human nature remained the same, and there were always people who profited at the expense of others. Daphne du Maurier
“ The poet’s insight into the unchanging spirit of humanity.… Insight was a good word. My father was great on insight. I had lived with him for twenty years and I ought to know. His intimate understandi… Daphne du Maurier
“ The other Dona was dead too, and this woman who had taken her place was someone who lived with greater intensity, with greater depth, bringing to every thought and every action a new richness of feeli… Daphne du Maurier
“ The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection. Daphne du Maurier
“ The fall was followed by a wail of anguish, penetrating to the dressing room behind. See to baby, Truda, Mama must have said, cool and composed, knowing that if the child had been crushed beneath the… Daphne du Maurier
“ The air was full of their scent, sweet and heady, and it seemed to me as though their very essence had mingled with the running waters of the stream, and become one with the falling rain and the dank… Daphne du Maurier
“ That corner in the drive, too, where the trees encroach upon. . . the gravel, is not a place in which to pause, not after the sun has set. When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealth… Daphne du Maurier
“ Slaughter on a scale far greater than any attempted by the Paris mob was the portion of those village patriots who dared to resist them. Women and children were not spared, men were thrown, while stil… Daphne du Maurier
“ Sir,’ or whatever one does say to God, ‘here I am, Maria, and I am the lowest form of life,’ that would be honest. And honesty counts for something, doesn’t it? One doesn’t know, said Niall. That’s th… Daphne du Maurier
“ Si crees que soy uno de esos que se sienten con ganas de bromas a la hora del desayuno, te equivocas. Por la mañana temprano estoy casi siempre de muy mal humor. Daphne du Maurier
“ She sipped her glass of water, crooking her finger, smiling at Maria. I can’t make up my mind, thought Niall, whether Polly is a criminal, cunning and dangerous, ripe for the Old Bailey; or just so bl… Daphne du Maurier
“ She reminded me of something, and suddenly I knew. I was a tiny child again at Radford, my uncle’s home, and he was walking me through the glass-houses in the gardens. There was one flower, an orchid,… Daphne du Maurier
“ Once there had been a path across the mountains, and restlessness, and an urge to fight, and a dream of many women, and now there was a home that was my home, and peace, and relaxation, and no dreams… Daphne du Maurier
