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“Whenever I walked in Manderley, whenever I sat, even in my thoughts and dreams, I met Rebecca.”

“I could picture them saying to one another as they drive away. My dear, what a dull girl. She scarcely opened her mouth, and then the sentence I had first heard upon Beatrice’s lips, haunting me ever since, a sentence I read in every eye, on every tongue—She’s so different to Rebecca.”

“The art of provocation was unknown to me, and I would sit with his map upon my lap, the wind blowing my dull, lanky hair, happy in his silence yet eager for his words.”

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden too, whatever the poets may say.”

this book is so good already, i mean w o w

“I looked upon a desolate shell, soulless at last, unhaunted, with no whisper of the past about its staring walls.” — of Manderley