“ Now you are here, let me show you everything, she said, her voice ingratiating and sweet as honey, horrible, false, I know you want to see it all, you've wanted to for a long time, and you were too sh… Daphne du Maurier
“ No human being could live in this wasted country, thought Mary, and remain like other people; the very children would be born twisted, like the blackened shrubs of broom, bent by the force of a wind t… Daphne du Maurier
“ Never dance again? said Niall. But what would happen? What would everybody do? Nothing would happen, she said. The theater is a funny world, you know. They forget one very soon. Daphne du Maurier
“ Nat thought to himself that they were no doubt considering the problem at that very moment, but whatever they decided to do in London and the big cities would not help the people here, three hundred m… Daphne du Maurier
“ Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them t… Daphne du Maurier
“ Most people would send their letters and telegrams to the Haymarket. The flowers too. When you came to think of it the whole business was horribly like having an operation. The telegrams, the flowers.… Daphne du Maurier
“ Meantime, the Declaration of the Rights of Man made all men equal, if it did not make them brothers, and within a week of its passing into law there were riots in Le Mans, and disturbances in Paris to… Daphne du Maurier
“ La verdad era una cosa intangible, invisible, con la que tropezábamos algunas veces sin llegar a reconocerla, y que solo la encontraban, la guardaban y la entendían los ancianos que se aproximaban a l… Daphne du Maurier
“ I’m being rather a brute to you, aren’t I? he said; this isn’t your idea of a proposal. We ought to be in a conservatory, you in a white frock with a rose in your hand, and a violin playing a waltz in… Daphne du Maurier
“ It's natural, I suppose, said Colonel Julyan, for all of us to wish to look different. We are all children in some ways. Daphne du Maurier
“ It was not chance that brought us together again. I am sure of that. These things are predestined. I have a theory that each man's life is like a pack of cards, and those we meet and sometimes love ar… Daphne du Maurier
“ It was hopeless the way time did not stand still, not for a fraction of a second, that there was never an occasion when I could grasp the whole intensity of pleasure, examining it, breathing it, holdi… Daphne du Maurier
“ It does happen, you know, from time to time, that a man finds a woman who is the answer to all his more searching dreams. And the two have understanding of each other, from the lightest moment to the… Daphne du Maurier
“ If I told you I was thinking about Surrey and Middlesex I was thinking about Surrey and Middlesex. Men are simpler than you imagine, my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted tortuous minds of w… Daphne du Maurier
“ I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes. Daphne du Maurier
“ I had left the land of fantasy, to her to enter into it. Two persons therefore could not share a dream. Except in darkness, as in make-believe. Each figure, then, a phantom. Daphne du Maurier
“ However grim and hateful was this new country, however barren and untilled, with Jamaica Inn standing alone upon the hill as a buffer to the four winds, there was a challenge in the air that spurred M… Daphne du Maurier
“ However demanding Pappy may have been, however tiring, however petulant, he was, in the true and deepest sense, her refuge. He shielded her from action. His was the cloak that covered her. She need no… Daphne du Maurier
“ How soft and gentle her name sounds when I whisper it. It lingers on the tongue, insidious and slow, almost like poison, which is apt indeed. It passes from the tongue to the parched lips, and from th… Daphne du Maurier
“ Here was Pierre laying down the law about what the King should say to the Assembly, or what the Assembly should say to the King, and yet he could not order his own unruly boys to come down from off th… Daphne du Maurier
