Rebecca Quotes

“The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.”
― Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

“If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone he wrote to, visited, dined with, slept with, I could fight her. We would stand on common ground. I should not be afraid. Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. One day the woman would grow old or tired or different, and Maxim would not love her anymore. But Rebecca would never grow old. Rebecca would always be the same. And she and I could not fight. She was too strong for me.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"
"Kiss a cow farm boy”
― Nora Roberts

“Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it. ”
― Nora Roberts

“I don't mind. I like being alone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“We were like two performers in a play, but we were divided, we were not acting with one another. We had to endure it alone, we had to put up this show, this miserable, sham performance for the sake of all these people I did not know and did not want to see again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“You take a step toward this Sorrengail and you'll be dead before you can even shift your weight,' Xaden says, his voice dropping lethally. 'She's not up for discussion.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hexed

“I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“We were amongst the rhododendrons. There was something bewildering, even shocking, about the suddenness of their discovery. The woods had not prepared me for them. They startled me with their crimson faces, massed one upon the other in incredible profusion, showing no leaf, no twig, nothing but the slaughterous red, luscious and fantastic, unlike any rhododendron plant I had seen before.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Rebecca tilted her face up to Jake and she felt his lips brushing lightly against hers. Then his lips were beside her ear, whispering, "A lifetime of happiness, Reb, I promise.”
― Lorraine Heath, Sweet Lullaby

“I almost envy your horse," she said, "because these thighs hug him all day."

-Rebecca to Jake”
― Lorraine Heath, Sweet Lullaby

“Jake?"

"Mmm?"

"I like it when you spend the day thinking."

He brought his head up, twinkling eyes and a mischie­vous grin gracing his countenance.

"Reb, honey, that was just what I thought about this morning. Wait until I show you what I thought about this afternoon.”
― Lorraine Heath, Sweet Lullaby

“Jake was hurting, emotionally and physically, and he was exhausted. He stared at her in wonder.

"You're going to name him after me?"

"I don't see any other father in this house."

Ignoring the pain throbbing in his hands, he drew her close, holding onto her tightly. It was the most precious gift she could have given him.”
― Lorraine Heath, Sweet Lullaby

“I was proud of you today, handling William Long the way you did." Her fingers stilled. "What did you think of him the first time you met him?" she asked quietly.

"That he was the kind of man you should have married."

"And now you don't think that anymore?"

"Now, it doesn't matter. You're married to me."

"I was the night you met him."

Jake's eyes met and held hers in the moonlight. "No, you weren't. Not really." His arm tightened around her. "But you are now.”
― Lorraine Heath, Sweet Lullaby

“He heard a soft voice calling him and turned towards it, trying to focus the vision before him. It wasn't his mother. If he weren't so tired, he would have smiled. He hadn't expected to find an angel in Hell.

The angel, her image blurred, a whiteness surrounding her, would understand. The angel would know.

"Why couldn't she love me?" he asked. The angel's answer was garbled. He strained to understand the words, not all his senses failed him as he slipped back into the abyss on the edge of Hell.

And the angel knelt down beside the bed and wept.”
― Lorraine Heath, Sweet Lullaby

“...When she'd skillfully turned it back towards the herd, Rebecca lifted an arm to wave at Jake, her smile vis­ible even from this distance. He felt a familiar tightening in his loins. How many times had he watched her ride across the Lazy A, experienced the same stirrings, and rid­den away so she'd never know what his true feelings were? He didn't have to ride away today. He could watch her graceful movements to his heart's content.”
― Lorraine Heath, Sweet Lullaby

“You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett."

"Had politeness beat into me.”
― Lorraine Heath, Sweet Lullaby

“Do I want to be loved in spite of?Do you? Does anyone? But aren't we all to some degree? Aren't there important parts of all of us which must be, so to say, gazed past? I turn a blind eye to that aspect of you and turn a blind eye to that aspect of me.”
― Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories

“A ce moment-là, Maxim me regarda enfin. Il me regarda pour la première fois de la soirée et, dans ses yeux, je lus un message d'adieu. C'était comme s'il se penchait au bastingage d'un navire, et que je me tenais en contrebas sur le quai. Il y avait d'autres gens qui touchaient son épaule et qui touchaient la mienne, mais nous ne les remarquions pas. Nous ne nous parlions pas et ne nous hélions pas, car le vent et la distance emportaient le son de nos voix. Mais je vis ses yeux, tout comme lui vit les miens, avant que le navire se détache du quai. Favell, Mme Danvers, le colonel Julyan, Frank avec son bout de papier à la main, tous furent oubliés à cet instant-là. Cet instant-là était le nôtre, inviolé, communion éphémère entre nos deux êtres.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again,”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I had an uneasy feeling we might be asked to spend the approaching Christmas with Beatrice. Perhaps I could have influenza.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“We were amongst the rhododendrons. There was something bewildering, even shocking, about the suddenness of their discovery. The woods had not prepared me for them. They startled me with their crimson faces, massed one upon the other in incredible profusion, showing no leaf, no twig, nothing but the slaughterhouse red, luscious and fantastic, unlike any rhododendron plant I had seen before.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I sat with my hands in my lap ready to agree with what anybody said.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Last night Rebekah tried to murder me again.”
― Lisa Gabriele, The Winters

“Come and see us if you feel like it. I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Zuzana Kubišová (translator)

“...this was the hypersensitive behavior of a neurotic...”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“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, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne Du Mauier, Rebecca