“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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
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
“...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
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
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
“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
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
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
