Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4 Quotes

“I kept thinking of the first time, nearly ten months before, on that Sunday in September. I had been irritated by Louise that morning, sitting so stiff and proud, and had neglected her from that day forward. She had not wavered, but had stayed my friend.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

“There is a tisana for that too,’ she said, ‘made from the leaves of raspberries and of nettles. If a woman drinks that for six months before the birth, she has her baby without pain.’ ‘That’s witchcraft,’ I said. ‘They wouldn’t think it right to do so.’ ‘What nonsense! Why should women suffer?’ said my cousin Rachel.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

“There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed, sitting here, alive and in my own home, any more than poor Tom Jenkyn could, swinging in his chains.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel