You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.
Daphne du MaurierWhen the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman’s hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.
Daphne du MaurierI wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is
alone.
From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, "That -- and none other.
Daphne du MaurierOnly a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, continue to the end.
Daphne du MaurierLife was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
Daphne du MaurierYou have qualities that are just as important, far more so, in fact. It's perhaps cheeky of me to say so, I don't know you very well. I'm a bachelor, I don't know very much about women, I lead a quiet sort of life down here at Manderley, as you know, but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so—modesty—are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.
Daphne du MaurierOf course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no clash of thought or of opinion makes a barrier between us.
Daphne du MaurierWe all of us have our particular devil who ruses us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.
Daphne du MaurierShe would have stood by Giles’s side, and shaken hands with people, a smile on her face. I could not do that. I had not the pride, I had not the guts. I was badly bred.
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