Daphne du Maurier

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. ”

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? ”

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. ”