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| 4da04f9 | These instruments are now made in bulk and used by doctors and chemists all over France, while my father's name is forgotten, but a hundred years ago the "instruments de chimie" designed at la Brulonnerie were sought after by all the apothecaries in Paris." -- | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 541bf72 | Supposing you are caught in Launceston with Mr. Bassat's pony? You would look a fool then, wouldn't you? And so would I, if they clapped me into prison alongside of you." "No one's going to catch me; not yet awhile, anyway. Take a risk, Mary; don't you like excitement, that you're so careful of your own skin? They must breed you soft down Helford way." She rose like a fish to his bait." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 99caef5 | One was too sensitive,too raw,there were thorns and pin-pricks in so many words that in reality fell lightly on the air. | sensitivity | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 9ca4a58 | They were flung open, and he could hear the applause in the far distance. He could not judge the sound. It always seemed to him the same from any theater. A steady, breaking sound. A sort of roar. It had always sounded the same for as far back as he could remember | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| c94f136 | Where do they go, Sophie, those younger selves of ours? How do they vanish and dissolve?" "They don't," I said. "They're with us always, like little shadows, ghosting us through life. I've been aware of mine, often enough, wearing a pinafore over my starched frock, chasing Edme up and down the great staircase in la Pierre." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 5dc7432 | I had so identified myself with Rebecca that my own dull self did not exist, had never come to Manderley. I had gone back in thought and in person to the days that were gone. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 7b7ee15 | They say death does this to us once we are warned. Unconsciously, we strive not to waste time. Pettiness falls away, with all those things of little value in our lives. Could we but have known sooner, we tell ourselves, it would have been otherwise; no anger, no destruction, above everything no pride. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| d36d8ef | Daphne du Maurier was the fifth-generation descendant of a French master craftsman who settled in England during the Revolution. The Glass-Blowers, the fictionalized story of his family, was originally published in 1963, but du Maurier first conceived of writing about her French forebears in the mid-1950s. She had recently completed her novel about Mary Anne Clarke, her famous great-great-grandmother, and a complementary work about the Fren.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 9762c66 | Most people would send their letters and telegrams to the Haymarket. The flowers too. When you came to think of it the whole business was horribly like having an operation. The telegrams, the flowers. And the long hours of waiting. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| bc5f278 | She walked briskly, with the quick step of one who did not suffer, or perhaps refused to suffer, any of the inconveniences of old age; | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 2ac0bae | Ambrose used to say to me in Florence that it was worth the tedium of visitors to experience the pleasure of their going. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 4286e37 | How am I to know?" said Maria. "People never tell one the truth, not the real truth. It may be all right tonight, and the notices may be good, and everybody be nice--but I shan't really know." "You'll know all right," he said, "here." And he tapped his chest. "Inside," he said. "I feel it's all wrong to be nervous," said Maria. "I feel it's lack of confidence. One ought to go right ahead, never minding." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 04ace90 | He settled himself with assurance behind the wheel and I climbed in beside him. As he turned the car away from the cathedral, and so out on to Rue Voltaire, he continued to enthuse in schoolboy fashion, murmuring, "Magnificent, excellent!" under his breath, obviously enjoying every moment of what soon turned out to be, from my own rather cautious standard, a hair-raising ride. When we had jumped one set of lights, and sent an old man, leapi.. | in-the-driver-s-seat | Daphne du Maurier | |
| c0722dc | Jacques Duval became a close friend of Marat, editor of L'Ami du Peuple, one of the most widely read and popular newspapers in Paris, and he used to send this down to us every week, so that we could keep abreast of all that was said and done in the capital. I was not sure what to make of it myself; it was an inflammatory sheet, whipping its readers to violence, and urging them to take action against the "enemies of the people" if legislatio.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8f8df8b | In fact, one of the first decrees passed, the day after the storming of the Tuileries, was an order giving every municipality throughout the country the right to arrest suspects on sight. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 14a6043 | Marat, in L'Ami du Peuple, declared that the only way to save the Revolution for the people was to slaughter the aristocrats en masse; yet if this happened the innocent might suffer with the guilty. Somehow, we no longer seemed to preach the brotherhood of man. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 2dad47d | My aunt Demere was shocked. Her husband, my uncle Demere, was one of the foremost important men in the foundry. He was a master melter, that is to say he prepared the mixture for the pots, and saw to it that the pots were filled with the right amount for the furnaces before the day's melt, and never, since they had been married, had my aunt Demere watched the potash being prepared by the flux-burner. "The first duty of a master's wife is to.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 07f3882 | I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| fcdfad7 | Children's tears are very near the surface, and come at the first crisis. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 5c32d5f | The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me. | quotes the-house-on-the-strand | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 9bbc97b | Marriage and piracy do not go together. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| a44ef2d | Un dia llegaras a conocer la felicidad que conoci yo una vez. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| d1d1df4 | La verdad era una cosa intangible, invisible, con la que tropezabamos algunas veces sin llegar a reconocerla, y que solo la encontraban, la guardaban y la entendian los ancianos que se aproximaban a la muerte y, a veces, los muy puros o muy jovenes. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 1cce6c3 | Don't be silly. Now, watch..." Very slowly Maria pushed the comforter into Caroline's mouth. It acted as a sort of gag. Caroline sucked noisily, and closed her eyes. The effect was magic. The crying ceased. "You'd scarcely credit it, would you?" whispered Maria. "It's rather frightful," said Niall. "Like plugging someone with cocaine. What if it has a terrible effect on Caroline in after-life?" "I don't care," said Maria. "Not if it keeps h.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| a749d62 | The rest of the little party had moved away, embarrassed, distressed, unwilling witnesses of what appeared to be an excess of faith. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 44c7834 | They were all gone, these other selves, and they would never come back again.They had vanished, like little thoughts and little dreams, poor has-beens that had lived in me and I in them, now thrown away into the dust, not even lingering as shadows to keep me company. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 816859a | Jim was no more interested than Mrs. Trigg had been. It was, Nat thought, like air raids in the war. No one down this end of the country knew what the Plymouth folk had seen and suffered. You had to endure something yourself before it touched you. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 5b3fc15 | Joss Merlyn shouted at the top of his voice, and the noise was deafening. Mary did not fear him like this; the whole thing was bluster and show; it was when he lowered his voice and whispered that she knew him to be deadly. For all his thunder he was frightened; she could see that; and his confidence was rudely shaken. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 90aecce | Was it true the lovely part of love only lasted a moment and the sorrow went on for a lifetime? | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 6f4237b | Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca was the book club pick that got under Kim's skin. She took no pleasure in watching the timid heroine contort herself in a desperate attempt to live up to the memory of her aloof husband's dauntingly beautiful, now-dead first wife. Kim had thrown the book across the room when--hundreds of pages in--the husband revealed that he'd hated his first wife and loved the newbie exactly as she was. Why the fuck hadn't he s.. | Kathy Cooperman | ||
| 143233d | Interestingly, the Llewelyn Davies boys were first cousins of gothic novelist Daphne du Maurier, whose own rather gothic childhood is a story in itself, and the reason du Maurier would not permit the publication of her childhood diaries until fifty years after her death. | Jennifer Traig | ||
| fff504c | It does happen, you know, from time to time, that a man finds a woman who is the answer to all his more searching dreams. And the two have understanding of each other, from the lightest moment to the darkest mood. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 0e61956 | What a bore! Especially when the day had gone so well. She had no desire to read or listen to records. His taste would be like her father's, old Peter Cheyneys and John Buchans, he used to read them over and over again. And music of the lighter sort, probably South Pacific. The steward brought in her tea, and this time there were cherry jam and scones, freshly baked, what's more. She wolfed the lot. Then she pottered around the room, inspec.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| e648907 | a silence on the tors that belonged to another age; an age that is past and vanished as though it had never been, an age when man did not exist, but pagan footsteps trod upon the hills. And there was a stillness in the air, and a stranger, older peace, that was not the peace of God. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| aa31016 | It seemed to Lady Althea, as she stood there above the steps, that all the people pressing forward were staring, not at the Dome of Rock, but at her alone, and were nudging on another, whispering, smiling; for she knew, from her own experience of mocking others, that there is nothing more likely to unite a crowd of strangers in a wave of laughter than the sight of someone who, with dignity shattered, becomes suddenly grotesque. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 631a3b6 | In December the first frosts came with the full moon, and then my nights of vigil held a quality harder to bear. There was a sort of beauty to them, cold and clear, that caught at the heart and made me stare in wonder. From my windows the long lawns dipped to the meadows, and the meadows to the sea, and all of them were white with frost, and white too under the moon. The trees that fringed the lawns were black and still. Rabbits came out an.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 7035edd | She sipped her glass of water, crooking her finger, smiling at Maria. I can't make up my mind, thought Niall, whether Polly is a criminal, cunning and dangerous, ripe for the Old Bailey; or just so bloody stupid that it would be kindness to wring her neck and spare the world more pain. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 1f445ab | We would make all sorts of promises to the cuisiniere, and to the daily femme de chambre, saying, "We'll be back again next year," knowing in our hearts that it would not be so. We never took the same villa twice. Next year it would be the Riviera perhaps, or Italy, and the cliffs and the sea of Brittany would become no more than a memory." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8695328 | If I possessed the world, you should have it also. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 1fac143 | She sat huddled in her corner, swaying from side to side as the coach was shaken, and it seemed to her that never before had she known there was malevolence in solitude. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 4155f60 | Even more than he regretted her opposition, he dreaded the drawing of battle lines between science and Scripture. Personally, he saw no conflict between the two. | Dava Sobel | ||
| aaafaff | Today, the latitude and longitude lines govern with more authority than I could have imagined forty-odd years ago, for they stay fixed as the world changes its configuration underneath them--with continents adrift across a widening sea, and national boundaries repeatedly redrawn by war or peace. | Dava Sobel | ||
| e5ba8fb | I have three books you need to read. Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt, Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly, and The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel. All three of these books focus on the women mathematicians--the "computers"--who powered astronomy and rocketry." | Mary Robinette Kowal | ||
| 0ee39ae | In 1616, a pope and a cardinal inquisitor reprimanded Galileo, warning him to curtail his forays into the supernal realms. The motions of the heavenly bodies, they said, having been touched upon in the Psalms, the Book of Joshua, and elsewhere in the Bible, were matters best left to the Holy Fathers of the Church. | Dava Sobel |