“ خوشبختی چیزی نیست که بتوان صاحب آن شد. خوشبختی به چگونه اندیشیدن و حالت روانی ما بستگی دارد. Daphne du Maurier
“ You understand now... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten. Daphne du Maurier
“ You look very pretty, said my mother at last, opening the conversation. And how do you like being the wife of a master glass-maker here at Rougemont? Well enough, replied Cathie, but I find it rather… Daphne du Maurier
“ Whether he talked or not made little difference to my mood. My only enemy was the clock on the dash-board, whose hands would move relentlessly to one o'clock. Daphne du Maurier
“ What a moment to bring a child into the world, that summer of ’93, the first year of the Republic; with the Vendée in revolt, the country at war, the traitorous Girondins endeavoring to bring down the… Daphne du Maurier
“ There was never an accident.Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her.I shot Rebecca in the cottage in the cove.I carried her body to the cabin, and took the boat out that night and sunk it there,… Daphne du Maurier
“ Then men were not dependent upon women after all, as she had thought—women were dependent upon men. Boys were frail, boys cried, boys were tender, boys were helpless. Mary Anne knew this, because she… Daphne du Maurier
“ Then I was glad of the presence of Jake near to me at all times, for a horror would come upon me because of the vast solitude of space and the solitary splendor of the regions where we were drifting;… Daphne du Maurier
“ The soft humidity of the evening, so pleasant to walk about in earlier, had turned to rain. The strolling tourists had melted away. One or two people hurried by under umbrellas. This is what the inhab… Daphne du Maurier
“ The rest of the little party had moved away, embarrassed, distressed, unwilling witnesses of what appeared to be an excess of faith. Daphne du Maurier
“ The point is, live has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem. Daphne du Maurier
“ The man would not commit himself. I don’t want to make trouble, he repeated, and I don’t know anything. It’s only what people say. Respectable folk don’t go to Jamaica anymore. That’s all I know. In t… Daphne du Maurier
“ She wondered if this was how a ship felt when the security of harbor was left behind. No vessel could feel more desolate than she did, not even if the wind thundered in the rigging and the sea licked… Daphne du Maurier
“ She is like a child playing at houses, whispered my mother. What I ask myself is this—where will it all end? Daphne du Maurier
“ Seen on her own, the woman was not so remarkable. Tall, angular, aquiline features, with the close-cropped hair which was fashionably called an Eton crop, he seemed to remember, in his mother's day, a… Daphne du Maurier
“ One was too sensitive,too raw,there were thorns and pin-pricks in so many words that in reality fell lightly on the air. Daphne du Maurier