I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?

no person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.