I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

- Daphne Du Maurier

Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. A…

- Daphne Du Maurier

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

- Daphne Du Maurier

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

- Daphne Du Maurier

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

- Daphne Du Maurier

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

- Daphne Du Maurier

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

- Daphne Du Maurier

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now a…

- Daphne Du Maurier

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, t…

- Daphne Du Maurier