I remembered as a child standing in a field where a stream crossed my path, and a yellow iris grew next a background of green rushes. The stream sang as it tumbled over the flat stones. And as a child...
I put Manderley first, before anything else. And it does not prosper, that sort of love. They don't preach about it in the churches. Christ said nothing about stones, and bricks, and walls, the love t...
I know I must seem unsympathetic and cold, but this is the nineteenth century, you know, and men don’t murder one another without reason. I believe I have as much right to drive you on the King’s high...
I feel it's all wrong to be nervous, said Maria. I feel it's lack of confidence. One ought to go right ahead, never minding.Some people do, he said, but they're the duds. They are the ones that win pr...
Here is Tom Jenkyns, honest and dull, except when he drank too much. It's true that his wife was a scold, but that was no excuse to kill her. If we killed women for their tongues all men would be murd...
He's made his own hell and there's no one but himself to thank for it.
He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there befo...
He did not notice, every day, as I did, the blind gaze of the old dog in its basket in the library, who lifted its head when it heard my footstep, the footstep of a woman, and sniffing the air drooped...
Freada said nothing was worth doing without effort. Pappy used to say that too. Everyone said it. But when things happened easily, what was the sense in driving yourself, in sweating blood?
Experience, Major Dodd, has long informed me that no man ever expresses admiration unless he wants something out of the person admired. That’s a very cynical view. I’m a cynical woman.
Dogs that had been his which she had not known. There’s dear old Punch… (Punch, he used to tell her, always knew when his ship was due home, and waited at an upstairs window.) Naval officers riding do...
Does forty-two seem very old to you? he said.
Curious thing that the younger men of today were glib enough when they talked of ideals and how everyone must progress in a changing world, but when the crunch came they were very ready to let the old...
But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood.
Certainly she nodded from time to time, and pursed her lips, and shook her head, and uttered little ejaculations; but it seemed to Mary that years of fear and anxiety had taken away her powers of conc...
This car had the wings of Mercury, I thought, for higher yet we climbed, and dangerously fast, and the danger pleased me because it was new to me, because I was young.
The art of provocation was unknown to me, and I would sit with his map upon my lap, the wind blowing my dull, lanky hair, happy in his silence yet eager for his words.
Somehow she would manage to introduce herself, and before her victim had scented danger she had proffered an invitation to her suite. Her method of attack was so downright and sudden that there was se...
So much for women’s value in other days. Goods reared for purchase, then bought and sold in the market-place, or rather manor. Small wonder that, their duty done, they looked round for consolation, ei...
No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.