I did so obediently, and waited for her approval.
Daphne du MaurierI felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.
Daphne du MaurierI am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours, however brief the time. Though two nights only have been spent beneath a roof, yet we leave something of ourselves behind. Nothing material, . . . but something indefinable, a moment of our lives, a thought, a mood.
The house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.
I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.
Daphne du MaurierTag: book
As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before.
Daphne du MaurierAn empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel" he said at length."The trouble is that it is less impersonal.
Daphne du MaurierMy realisation that all I had ever done in life, not only in France but in England also, was to watch people, never to partake in their happiness or pain, brought such a sense of overwhelming depression, deepened by the rain stinging the windows of the car, that when I came to Le Mans, although I had not intended to stop there and lunch, I changed my mind, hoping to change my mood.
Daphne du MaurierDo you know so little about children, Monsieur Jean,' she asked, 'that you imagine, because they don't cry, therefore they feel nothing? If so, you're much mistaken.
Daphne du MaurierBut luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
Daphne du MaurierBut the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious.
Daphne du MaurierTag: art music immorality
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