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The House on the Strand QUOTES

The House on the Strand QUOTES

1 " The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

2 " To him, the drug released the complex brew within the brain that served up the savored past. To me, it proved that the past was living still, that we were all participants, all witnesses. I was Roger, I was Bodrugan, I was Cain; and in being so was more truly myself. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

3 " Three years of marriage,” he said, “and the dishwasher means more to your conjugal life than the double bed I’m throwing in for good measure. I warned you it wouldn’t last. The marriage, I mean, not the bed. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

4 " So much for women’s value in other days. Goods reared for purchase, then bought and sold in the market-place, or rather manor. Small wonder that, their duty done, they looked round for consolation, either by taking a lover or by playing an active part in the bargaining over their own daughters and sons. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

5 " Could time be all-dimensional—yesterday, today, tomorrow running concurrently in ceaseless repetition? Perhaps "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

6 " When I lie I like to base the lie on a foundation of fact, for it appeases not only conscience but a sense of justice. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

7 " What they had dreamed of, schemed for, accomplished, no longer mattered, it was all forgotten. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

8 " I had not awakened from some nostalgic dream . . . Could time be all-dimensional - yesterday, today, tomorrow running concurrently in ceaseless repetition? "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

9 " The first thing I noticed was the clarity of the air, and then the sharp green colour of the land. There was no softness anywhere. The distant hills did not blend into the sky but stood out like rocks, so close that I could almost touch them, their proximity giving me that shock of surprise and wonder which a child feels looking for the first time through a telescope. Nearer to me, too, each object had the same hard quality, the very grass turning to single blades, springing from a younger, harsher soil than the soil I knew. I had expected - if I had expected anything - a transformation of another kind: a tranquil sense of wellbeing, the blurred intoxication of a dream, with everything about me misty, illdefined; not this tremendous impact, a reality more vivid than anything hitherto experienced, sleeping or awake, "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

10 " This, I think, was the essence of what it meant to me. To be bound, yet free; to be alone, yet in their company; to be born in my own time yet living, unknown, in theirs. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

11 " The world we carry inside us produces answers, sometimes. A way of escape. A flight from reality "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

12 " The entrance gate at the far end of the quadrangle was open wide, and beyond it I could see a mass of people assembled on the green, men, women, children.The shouting was coming from them, and the creaking sounds were the wheels of an enormous covered wagon drawn by five horses, the second leader and the horse between the shafts carrying riders upon their backs. The wooden canopy "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand

13 " There are few strains more intolerable in life than waiting for the arrival of unwelcome guests. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The House on the Strand