“ Nature had come into her own again, and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way, had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers. Daphne du Maurier
“ I’ll not show fear before Joss Merlyn or any man, she said, and, to prove it, I will go down now, in the dark passage, and take a look at them in the bar, and if he kills me it will be my own fault. Daphne du Maurier
“ If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand. Daphne du Maurier
“ If the flower of my generation had not been blown to bits in the war they would have brought it back again. Now it’s too late. So few of us are left. The bride at St. George’s Daphne du Maurier
“ For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her… Daphne du Maurier
“ We can never go back again that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again and that sense of fear of furtive unrest...… Daphne du Maurier
“ …you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind. Daphne du Maurier
“ You have blotted out the past for me, you know, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But for you I should have left long ago, gone to Italy, and Greece, and further still pe… Daphne du Maurier
“ We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, strug… Daphne du Maurier
“ They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbe… Daphne du Maurier
“ Thank God nobody knew who he was, and he did not have to talk, but the sense of oppression was with him just the same. He was aware of a feeling of acute dislike, almost of hatred, towards all these u… Daphne du Maurier
“ So you see, when eat comes to one's own village, one's own doorstep, it isn't tragic and impersonal any longer. It's just an excuse to vomit private hatred. Daphne du Maurier
“ People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine. Daphne du Maurier
“ On the table there, polished now and plain, an ugly case would stand containing butterflies and moths, and another one with bird's eggs wrapped in cotton wool. Not all this junk in here, I would say,… Daphne du Maurier
“ Nosotros vamos a las guerras y a las batallas, señor Ashley, pero las mujeres también saben luchar. Daphne du Maurier
“ No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Jem Merlyn was a man, and she was a woman, and whether it was his hands or his skin or his smile she di… Daphne du Maurier
