When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.

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.

…you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.

It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.

Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.

Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.