Jamaica Inn
Daphne Du Maurier
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.”
“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.”
“No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.”
“He took her face in his hands and kissed it, and she saw that he was laughing. "When you're an old maid in mittens down at Helford, you'll remember that," he said, "and it will have to last you to the end of your days. '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.”
“And, though there should be a world of difference between the smile of a man and the bared fangs of a wolf, with Joss Merlyn they were one and the same.”
“If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.”
“She realized for the first time that aversion and attraction ran side by side; that the boundary-line was thin between them.”
“Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her, and of his brother, and of God; while she dragged through the years, sullen and bitter, the stain of silence marking her, coming in the end to ridicule as a soured spinster who had been kissed once in her life and could not forget it.”
“I don't want to love like a woman or feel like a woman, Mr Davey; there's pain that way, and suffering, and misery that can last a lifetime. I didn't bargain for this; I don't want it.”
“No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Jem Merlyn was a man, and she was a woman, and whether it was his hands or his skin or his smile she did not know, but something inside her responded to him, and the very thought of him was an irritant and a stimulant at the same time. It nagged at her and would not let her be.”
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Book Keywords:
nature, romance
