Daphne du Maurier

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#humor

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#mind #possession #prized #quality #state

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#first-sentence #dreams

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

#love

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#growth #life #trials #life

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#love

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#talent

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#life

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#my-cousin-rachel #life

I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#romantic