“ When Stephen talked about stalking chamois his whole expression changed. The features became more aquiline, the nose sharpened, the chin narrowed, and his eyes-steel blue - somehow took on the cold br… Daphne du Maurier
“ Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pu… Daphne du Maurier
“ It is not easy to be gallant in an apple tree. Perhaps you will tell your mother. Daphne du Maurier
“ I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly b… Daphne du Maurier
“ I am very different that that self who drove to Manderley for the first time, hopeful and eager, handicapped by a rather desperate gaucherie and filled with awn intense desire to please Daphne du Maurier
“ I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of littl… Daphne du Maurier
“ He had no answer to that, or to any of her thoughts, and the smile that hovered a moment at the corner of her mouth and went as swiftly—it happened now, in her pretence of sleep—had no connection with… Daphne du Maurier
“ Why are you sitting here beside me, then?''Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be. Daphne du Maurier
“ The visitors sat down, languid, and content to rest. Seecombe brought cake and wine. Daphne du Maurier
“ The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem. Daphne du Maurier
“ The order never varies. Two slices of bread-and-butter each, and China tea. What a hide-bound couple we must seem, clinging to custom because we did so in England. Here, on this clean balcony, white a… Daphne du Maurier
“ He could see her planting violets on his grave, a solitary figure in a grey cloak. What a ghastly tragedy. A lump came to his throat. He became quite emotional thinking of his own death. He would have… Daphne du Maurier
“ But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness. Daphne du Maurier
“ As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe. She walked softly along the alleyway to the pool. The late sun sent shafts… Daphne du Maurier
“ All attempts on the part of her son to dissuade her were useless. She remained firm. If this man is an impostor I shall know it directly I set eyes on him, she said. If not, then I shall have done my… Daphne du Maurier
“ She thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who were shy, who imagined that passion and tenderness were two things sep… Daphne du Maurier
