Rebecca Quotes

“I had an uneasy feeling we might be asked to spend the approaching Christmas with Beatrice. Perhaps I could have influenza.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again,”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Empieza a hablar deprisa y con pasión acerca de cualquier cosa, agarrándose al tema, como si fuera remedio seguro contra todo dolor.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“No shadows steal upon this hard glare, the stony vineyards shimmer in the sun and the bougainvillaea is white with dust.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I looked at him over my glass of citronade. It was not easy to explain my father and usually I never talked about him. He was my secret property. Preserved for me alone, much as Manderley was preserved for my neighbour. I had no wish to introduce him casually over a table in a Monte Carlo restaurant.
There was a strange air of unreality about that luncheon, and looking back upon it now it is invested for me with a curious glamour. There was I, so much of a schoolgirl still, who only the day before had sat with Mrs Van Hopper, prim, silent, and subdued, and twenty-four hours afterwards my family history was mine no longer, I shared it with a man I did not know. For some reason I felt impelled to speak, because his eyes followed me in sympathy like the Gentleman Unknown.”
― Daphne du Maurier , Rebecca