{"author":"Daphne du Maurier","author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier","total_quotes":73,"quotes":[{"text":"Who can ever affirm, or deny that the houses which have sheltered us as children, or as adults, and our predecessors too, do not have embedded in their walls, one with the dust and cobwebs, one with the overlay of fresh wallpaper and paint, the imprint of what-has-been, the suffering, the joy?","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["home","houses","memories"],"id":22444,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"He could see her planting violets on his grave, a solitary figure in a grey cloak. What a ghastly tragedy. A lump came to his throat. He became quite emotional thinking of his own death. He would have to write a poem about this. --from a Difference in Temperament.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["black-humor","vanity"],"id":29204,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["marriage","women"],"id":32641,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["romantic"],"id":36322,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["changes","home","life"],"id":41531,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["book"],"id":48194,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["fear","inferiority","shyness","social-anxiety"],"id":48853,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["happiness"],"id":49178,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["dogs"],"id":53163,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["connection","love","togetherness"],"id":54224,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":73,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}