Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality. — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“…but in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. They can be my secret indulgence.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“It is strange how in moments of great crisis the mind whips back to childhood.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“You have blotted out the past for me, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“So death, Shelagh decided, was a moment for compliments, for everyone saying polite things about everybody else which they would not dream… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“I might say that we have paid for freedom. But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Until the moment of that dismissal with its reason given, he had received out of anywhere—or was it out of nowhere in… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Had I known, that last hour sitting there, talking and laughing about trivial things, that there was a clot forming like a… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“It was then that Maxim looked at me. He looked at me for the first time that evening. And in his eyes… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“And all this, she thought, is only momentary, is only a fragment in time that will never come again, for yesterday already… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes were… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“He [Joss] lingered for a moment, looking down at her, and then he bent low and laid his fingers on her mouth.… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“She stared at me curiously. Her voice dropped to a whisper. "Sometimes, when I walk along the corridor here, I fancy I… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“The voice told me that it was my father who was to blame. He was responsible for this moment, this business of… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“It does happen, you know, from time to time, that a man finds a woman who is the answer to all his… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“My complaint is universal, and has been so through the ages, an excuse for jest and hilarious laughter from earliest times, until… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“He was not staring at her anymore. He was still. He had gone. The moment of truth had vanished forever, and she… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“...somewhere there is a Dona of tomorrow, a Dona of the future, of ten years away, to whom all of this will… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“You understand now... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“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… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“We all of us have our particular devil who ruses us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“There have been men in arid deserts where the sun has so disfigured them that they have become things of horror – parched and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. When shutting drawers and flinging wide an hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
![“He [Joss] lingered for a moment, looking down at her, and then he bent low and laid his fingers on her mouth. 'I've got a soft spot for you, Mary,' he said 'you've got spirit still, and pluck, for all the knocks I've given you. I've seen it in your eyes tonight. If I'd been a younger man I'd have…” quote by Daphne du Maurier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e1d/daphne-du-maurier-1185_side-by-side_he-joss-lingered-for-a-moment-looking-do_1475584.jpg)
