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 MaurierThe point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.
Daphne du MaurierWhy, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?
Daphne du Maurier