Brooke

“I mean that I am bound to you, even as you are bound to me. From the very first, I knew that it would be so. When I came here, in the winter, and lay upstairs in your room, my hands behind my head, and looked at your sullen portrait on the wall, I smiled to myself, and said, ‘That—and none other.’ And I waited, and I did nothing, for I knew that our time would come.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

“We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.”
― Trevanian, The Summer of Katya

“She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

“Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep