Days [ ) Share | Daphne du Maurier, 1937

Hunter S. Thompson, Doll Head with Knife, Woody Creek, Colorado, 1960s

“Don’t you see,” she would explain, “that when I see anything or do anything there is no joy in keeping it to myself? I want to give everything to you. If I am alone and I see a picture that I love, or I read some passage from a book, I think to myself there is no meaning in this unless he knows it too. You are such a part of me that to stand alone leaves me dumb, without speech, without eyes. A tree with hatched branches, like someone with no hands. Life is valueless unless I can share everything with you – beauty, ugliness, pain. There must be no shadows between us, no quiet corners in our hearts.”

Daphne du Maurier, The Doll: The Lost Short Stories, 1937

Also:
The Book and the Movie: Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier, 1938 / Alfred Hitchcock, 1940
Book//mark – Not After Midnight, 5 long stories | Daphne du Maurier, 1971