"Rebecca" Quotes

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

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.

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great wall in front of them that hid the truth.

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had been before.

I am glad it is a ruin. I pity the poor beast who has to live in it, but I am glad it is a ruin.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

I'm afraid I shall forget Manderley. I'm afraid I shall forget everything. It will be just as if I'd never been born.

You know, you aren't very attractive now, and you're even less attractive when you're thinking of yourself.