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The relief was tremendous. I did not feel sick anymore. The pain had gone...I had no idea I was so empty. — Daphne Du Maurier

The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men. — Daphne Du Maurier

If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning. — Daphne Du Maurier

She had contemplated life so long it had become indifferent to her. — Daphne Du Maurier

He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways. — Daphne Du Maurier

There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance. — Daphne Du Maurier

There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the gray stone shining in the moonlight of my dream ... — Daphne Du Maurier

It was unlike anything I had ever known. I had no feeling, no pain. — Daphne Du Maurier

Why this man should love that woman, what queer chemical mix-up in our blood draws us to one another, who can tell? — Daphne Du Maurier

There was nothing quite so shaming, so degrading as a marriage that had failed. — Daphne Du Maurier

There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair — Daphne Du Maurier

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls. — Daphne Du Maurier

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness. — Daphne Du Maurier

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again. — Daphne Du Maurier

I had never looked more youthful, I had never felt so old. — Daphne Du Maurier

Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand. — Daphne Du Maurier

And I don't like books which are full of name dropping. — Daphne Du Maurier

You have only to look at his eyes. He's still in hell... — Daphne Du Maurier

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

the rank and melancholy smell of charred wet wood and sodden leaves coming towards me on a wisp of air. — Daphne Du Maurier

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. — Daphne Du Maurier

A bad workman blames his tools. — Daphne Du Maurier

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman. — Daphne Du Maurier

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. — Daphne Du Maurier

I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. — Daphne Du Maurier

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. — Daphne Du Maurier

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone. — Daphne Du Maurier

Resignation brings its own reward — Daphne Du Maurier

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work. — Daphne Du Maurier

There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed. — Daphne Du Maurier

The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection. — Daphne Du Maurier

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. — Daphne Du Maurier

Happy in his silence yet eager for his words. — Daphne Du Maurier

She laughed because she must, and because he made her; — Daphne Du Maurier

Life and death do not wait for legal action. — Daphne Du Maurier

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. — Daphne Du Maurier

Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy. — Daphne Du Maurier

But in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. They can be my secret indulgence. — Daphne Du Maurier

I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy. — Daphne Du Maurier

Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. — Daphne Du Maurier

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands. — Daphne Du Maurier

It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil. — Daphne Du Maurier

Death should be different. It should be like bidding farewell to someone at a station before a long journey, but without the strain. — Daphne Du Maurier

- because just by hating it's possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire.. — Daphne Du Maurier

The inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy. — Daphne Du Maurier

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 Maurier

You know,' she said, 'it's a good thing, now and again, to take stock of oneself in life. To see where one has gone wrong. I — 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

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear — Daphne Du Maurier

She's dearer than life itself, that's all I know. — Daphne Du Maurier

It's so much easier to think out vaguely in my head than to set it down in words. — Daphne Du Maurier

Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be. — Daphne Du Maurier

I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead — 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

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. — Daphne Du Maurier

People who travel are always fugitives. — Daphne Du Maurier

You're all wounded and hurt and torn inside. — Daphne Du Maurier

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day! — George Du Maurier

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem. — Daphne Du Maurier

An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel" he said at length."The trouble is that it is less impersonal. — Daphne Du Maurier

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. — Daphne Du Maurier

You understand now ... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten. — Daphne Du Maurier

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets - a vicious circle. — George Du Maurier

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child. — Daphne Du Maurier

He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now. — Daphne Du Maurier

I don't mind. I like being alone. — Daphne Du Maurier

One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier

A man's jealousy is like a child's, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman's jealousy is adult, which is very different. — Daphne Du Maurier

I was aware of a sense of freedom, as though I had no responsibilities at all. — Daphne Du Maurier

The visitors sat down, languid, and content to rest. Seecombe brought cake and wine. — Daphne Du Maurier

I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible. — Daphne Du Maurier

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality. — Daphne Du Maurier

An apple is an excellent thing
until you have tried a peach. — George Du Maurier

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. — Daphne Du Maurier

And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural. — Daphne Du Maurier

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy? — George Du Maurier

With Rebecca we enter a world of dreams and daydreams, but they always threaten to tip over into nightmare. — Daphne Du Maurier

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost. — Daphne Du Maurier

The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons. — Daphne Du Maurier

What degradation lay in being young. — Daphne Du Maurier

Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations. — Daphne Du Maurier

Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now? — Daphne Du Maurier

She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment — Daphne Du Maurier

No person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places. — Daphne Du Maurier

I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. — Daphne Du Maurier

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. — Daphne Du Maurier

I did so obediently, and waited for her approval. — Daphne Du Maurier

But fate and circumstance had made me no more than a shadow in his life, a phantom of what might have been — Daphne Du Maurier

You have blotted out the past for me, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. — Daphne Du Maurier

Dead men tell no tales, Mary. — Daphne Du Maurier

He was my secret property. Preserved for me alone... — Daphne Du Maurier

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live. — Daphne Du Maurier

I wanted to go back again, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that if we did it would not be the same (...) — Daphne Du Maurier

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone. — Daphne Du Maurier

It was disturbing, like an enchanted place. I had not thought it could be as beautiful as this — Daphne Du Maurier

Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday. — Daphne Du Maurier

We only become aware of hot discomfort when others are made awkward for our sakes — Daphne Du Maurier

You had to endure something yourself before it touched you. — Daphne Du Maurier

Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees? — Daphne Du Maurier