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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6c95c05 | Mander smiled: "A woman is as old as she looks, a man is as old as he feels, Sir Julius. You know the old saying?" | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| ec2d40d | Nature had come into her own again, and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way, had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 752e30e | Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, even upon a dreamer's fancy. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| f0f72a8 | Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| e62b86b | Poor whims of fancy, tender and unharsh. They are the enemy to bitterness and regret, and sweeten this exile we have brought upon ourselves. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8a7418c | I did not know one could buy companionship," he said, "it sounds a primitive idea. Rather like the eastern slave market." "I looked up the word companion once in the dictionary," I admitted,"and it said 'a companion is a friend of the bosom." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 4892353 | If I told you I was thinking about Surrey and Middlesex I was thinking about Surrey and Middlesex. Men are simpler than you imagine, my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 48b7a10 | Listen, my sweet. When you were a little girl, were you ever forbidden to read certain books, and did your father put those books under lock and key?" "Yes," I said. "Well, then. A husband is not so very different from a father after all. There is a certain type of knowledge I prefer you not to have. It's better kept under lock and key. So that's that. And now eat up your peaches, and don't ask me any more questions, or I shall put you in t.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 3de684c | 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 | ||
| 89ff563 | 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 | ||
| 141ae76 | 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 | ||
| 8d012cd | Could time be all-dimensional--yesterday, today, tomorrow running concurrently in ceaseless repetition? Perhaps | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| c8e8937 | I had an uneasy feeling we might be asked to spend the approaching Christmas with Beatrice. Perhaps I could have influenza. | daphne-du-maurier gothic-fiction gothic-horror rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | |
| cc697db | 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 | ||
| b2d6fdf | What they had dreamed of, schemed for, accomplished, no longer mattered, it was all forgotten. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 1ea0d65 | I wish I were a man, William." "Why so, my lady?" "Because I too would find my ship, and go forth, a law unto myself." | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 8a66c90 | men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| d8f216f | Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| b10f550 | He did not notice, every day, as I did, the blind gaze of the old dog in its basket in the library, who lifted its head when it heard my footstep, the footstep of a woman, and sniffing the air drooped its head again, because I was not the one she sought. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 0939373 | Death was an executioner, lopping a flower before it bloomed. The sky had glories enough, but not the soil. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 9181327 | Rebecca Daphne du Maurier | Greer Hendricks | ||
| b4bebbd | Magellan's sudden identification of millions of land forms fomented a crisis in nomenclature. The International Astronomical Union responded with an all-female naming scheme that evoked a goddess or giantess from every heritage and era, along with heroines real or invented. Thus the Venusian highlands, the counterparts to Earth's continents, took the names of love goddesses -- Aphrodite Terra, Ishtar Terra, Lada Terra, with hundreds of thei.. | science venus women-scientists planets queen | Dava Sobel | |
| c43a171 | Uveriaiut, budto Liudovik XIV, uvidev novye karty svoikh vladenii, osnovannye na tochnom opredelenii dolgoty, posetoval, chto geodezisty otniali u nego bol'she zemel', chem nepriiatel'. | Dava Sobel | ||
| 3d16e1f | To have done work which is widely recognized, to have gained the sincere esteem of many and the real love of even a few, surely these are sufficient reasons to look on life as well worth the living. | Dava Sobel | ||
| dc4706e | It was a typical Soviet ploy. People were forever quoting Lenin, much of the time with a great deal of creativity, knowing that even scholars had a difficult time identifying quotations from the mass of Lenin's writing and speeches. Rostnikov | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| ffd0c5a | This was fine with Katrina Vross, a weary, short, baggy-eyed chain-smoker with the put-upon air of many Russian bureaucrats whose attitude suggested that any question you might ask was a major imposition on their time, a reflection of your own stupidity, and a confirmation that life was an endless series of debilitating repetitions. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 93edd50 | You may return to Odessa to spread the news that Fedot the cousin of fond memory was a walking blind erection that managed to be unable to locate me for the past four years. He was, however, more successful in locating a colorful array of other willing, waiting receptacles. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 3e82e3f | At the end of the top of the desk, the sickle caught the phone and the tip of the blade broke off. There are days, thought Rostnikov, where fate denies a man even the most meaningless of dramatic gestures. The | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 8a92708 | A good wife is a stone to hold one down," said the Wolfhound. "A rock to rely on," Rostnikov corrected gently. "Da," the Wolfhound said seriously, returning to Russian. "A rock to rely on. The American idiom contradicts itself and is often difficult to fathom." | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| d075896 | The train ride back from Yekteraslav was hell. Zelach brooded, pouted, almost sucked his thumb. He shifted and squirmed and demanded more attention than a petulant child. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| a9e5395 | Moscow," he said, "was built to make people feel small against the magnificence of the revolution. The streets are eight lanes wide, the statues are five stories high, the buildings are as big as mountains. But this--look at it, Shemenkov" | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 9bc8247 | Girls," said Rostnikov. "Go into the other room and pretend you are doing homework. You can listen from there." | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 3b515bd | you fantasize too much. It will make you dream. Dreams will turn to hopes. Hopes will turn to longing. Longing will turn to despair. Despair will turn to laughter. And laughter will get you in trouble. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 9170bea | I am going to move to St. Petersburg," Boris said, his voice a crisp rasp. "You have relatives there?" Rostnikov said, ignoring the non sequitur. "No, never. That is why I want to go there." | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| d635299 | Porfiry," Sarah said. "I'll heat you something." "Girls," said Rostnikov. "Go into the other room and pretend you are doing homework. You can listen from there." | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| 5d78b6c | Once again he cawed four times and was about to caw again when he heard the sound of humans coming through the woods. The bird turned on the window ledge, flapped its black wings, and rose slowly toward the trees. He caught the wind and soared upward. | Stuart M. Kaminsky | ||
| c621526 | All books are investments (p.134) | Monica Ali | ||
| 7aaeea8 | He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake. | Monica Ali | ||
| 04df32e | She put her free hand briefly across his round cheek. To touch like this was permitted here, among these stateless people, where the rules were unknown and in any case suspended. | Monica Ali | ||
| 62fbee0 | The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful. However much she thought of to tell, however the words flowed in her head as she performed her chores, despite the emotion that swelled and throbbed while the storylines formed, the telling was inevitably brief and blunt, a poor thing, stunted as a failed crop. | Monica Ali | ||
| e58a0a7 | Sometime when people see a beautiful thing they want to destroy it. The thing make them feel ugly so they act ugly. | Monica Ali | ||
| 3bf5dc1 | What could not be changed must be borne. And since nothing could be changed, everything had to be borne. | Monica Ali | ||
| 65da678 | When she woke she thought I know what I would wish but by now she knew that where she wanted to go was not a different place but a different time. | Monica Ali | ||
| 90b9a34 | But if you do not wish to speak, I do not wish to hear. | Monica Ali |