Mrs de Winter Quotes

“I felt dead and sick inside.”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“There are some temptations that cannot be resisted, some lessons we never learn.”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“...the past still held secrets, the past threw its shadows...”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“I would act, pretend, and the pretense would become real.”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“There were some things I could never begin to know about.”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“We make our own destiny.”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“...everything had changed, and she had crumpled in front of me, and become wholly broken and lost...”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter

“You try so hard to shield me, and protect me, and really, there is no need, you try so hard to hide what you want, how you feel, and of course you can't.”
― Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter