bhagyareads

“Why are you sitting here beside me, then?'
'Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

“Ease your whiskers, rest your paws,
Pies and puddings fill the stores
Sweetly dream the night away
Till sunshine brings another day”
― Jill Barklem, Autumn Story

“Roast the chestnuts, heat the wine,
Pass the cups along the line,
Gather round, the log burns bright,
It's warm as toast inside tonight,”
― Jill Barklem, The Secret Staircase

“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