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My Cousin Rachel QUOTES

My Cousin Rachel QUOTES

1 " Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

2 " A woman of feeling does not easily give way. You may call it pride, or tenacity, call it what you will. In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, their emotions are more primitive than ours. They hold to the thing they want, and never surrender. We have our wars and battles, Mr. Ashey. But women can fight too. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

3 " But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

4 " She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

5 " Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

6 " The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

7 " 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. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

8 " There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

9 " 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. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

10 " 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. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

11 " She had contemplated life so long it had become indifferent to her. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

12 " People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

13 " 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. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

14 " A man’s jealousy is like a child’s, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman’s jealousy is adult, which is very different. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

15 " How soft and gentle her name sounds when I whisper it. It lingers on the tongue, insidious and slow, almost like poison, which is apt indeed. It passes from the tongue to the parched lips, and from the lips back to the heart. And the heart controls the body, and the mind also. Shall I be free of it one day? "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

16 " I am no traveller, you are my world. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

17 " At twenty-three it takes very little to make the spirits soar. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

18 " It is strange how in moments of great crisis the mind whips back to childhood. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

19 " How soft and gentle her name sounds when I whisper it. It lingers on the tongue, insidious and slow, almost like poison, which is apt indeed. It passes from the tongue to the parched lips, and from the lips back to the heart. And the heart controls the body, and the mind also. Shall I be free of it one day? In forty, in fifty years? Or will some lingering trace of matter in the brain stay pallid and diseased? Some minuscule cell in the bloodstream fail to race with its fellows to the fountain heart? Perhaps, when all is said and done, I shall have no wish to be free. As yet, I cannot tell. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel

20 " ..If we killed women for their tongues all men would be murderers. "

― Daphne du Maurier , My Cousin Rachel