“ Dust unto dust. There was no reason then for life—it was only a fraction of a moment between birth and death, a movement upon the surface of water, and then it was still. Janet had loved and suffered,… Daphne du Maurier
“ Did you think that? said Maria. So did I. Oh, Niall… if I ever marry and have a baby, will you have it for me? It would be one way of getting famous, anyway, said Niall. Daphne du Maurier
“ But you know the old saying? Out of sight, out of mind. If people aren't there to be talked about the talk dies. It's the way of the world. Daphne du Maurier
“ Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be. Daphne du Maurier
“ Aucun de nous n'a envie de revivre ce passé. Maxim moins que tout autre. Et c'est à vous, comprenez-le, de nous en détacher. Il ne faut pas nous y ramener. Daphne du Maurier
“ And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper of the dreams that she had dreamt there, in midsummer, under the hot s… Daphne du Maurier
“ All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them. Daphne du Maurier
“ All this, 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 that may be hostil… Daphne du Maurier
“ Acknowledgments I wish to thank the following for their great help in making known to me the many facts relating to my forebears, the Bussons, during the hundred years from 1747–1845, as well as the h… Daphne du Maurier
“ A wave of perfume came from these fine folk, a strange exotic scent like flowers no longer fresh, whose petals curl, and this stale richness somehow mingled with the drab dirt of those beside us, pres… Daphne du Maurier
“ Somewhere there is a Dona of tomorrow, a Dona of the future, of ten years away, to whom all of this will be a thing to cherish, a thing to remember. Much will be forgotten then, perhaps, the sound of… Daphne du Maurier
“ Women are not so, Philip. Their moods vary with the days and nights, sometimes even with the hours, just as a man’s can do. We are human, that is our failing. Daphne du Maurier
“ We only become aware of hot discomfort when others are made awkward for our sakes Daphne du Maurier
“ He stood on the balcony because the sounds and the smells of Paris came to his ears and his nostrils and lost themselves inside his head and came out again as tunes Daphne du Maurier
“ Until the moment of that dismissal with its reason given, he had received out of anywhere—or was it out of nowhere in the morning—that love must suffer for loving; that, the deeper planted, the more i… Daphne du Maurier
“ They were flung open, and he could hear the applause in the far distance. He could not judge the sound. It always seemed to him the same from any theater. A steady, breaking sound. A sort of roar. It… Daphne du Maurier
“ There's a home for you here at North Hill, you know that, and my wife joins me in begging you to stay. Plenty to do, you know, plenty to do. There are flowers to be cut for the house, and letters to w… Daphne du Maurier
“ The months of anxiety had taken their toll of my mother, with the journeys backwards and forwards to Paris which had continued during the summer. She had never cared for the capital; and now, she told… Daphne du Maurier
“ Supposing you are caught in Launceston with Mr. Bassat’s pony? You would look a fool then, wouldn’t you? And so would I, if they clapped me into prison alongside of you. No one’s going to catch me; no… Daphne du Maurier
“ She sat with her chin cupped in her hands, her eyes fixed on the window splashed with mud and rain, hoping with a sort of desperate interest that some ray of light would break the heavy blanket of sky… Daphne du Maurier
