My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.”
“He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me.”
“There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.”
“We were dreamers, both of us, unpractical, reserved, full of great theories never put to test, and like all dreamers, asleep to the waking world. Disliking our fellow men, we craved affection; but shyness kept impulse dormant until the heart was touched. When that happened the heavens opened, and we felt, the pair of us, that we have the whole wealth of the universe to give. We would have both survived, had we been other men.”
“She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.”
“She had contemplated life so long it had become indifferent to her.”
“I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each other and, with a common grief, grow far apart. There must be something in the nature of love between a man and a woman that drove them to torment and suspicion.”
“They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days. Not anymore, though.”
“Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.”
“There are some women, Philip, good women very possibly, who through no fault of their own impel disaster. Whatever they touch, somehow turns to tragedy.”
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