We hope the example of Daphne's family will encourage you to post on this webpage your favourite lines other than the universally well-loved opening to Rebecca. Perhaps you'll be inspired to re-read her books and discover other lines with a special meaning for you.

Virago Press has published almost thirty of Daphne's books in paperback with a delightful hardback edition of Vanishing Cornwall. These have introductions by established authors, some of whom have presented at our Festival and submitted their own favourite lines below.

If you have already REGISTERED as a Member, please use the SUBMIT form to send your favourite lines to us, where they will be reviewed by Ann Willmore.

"Your Favourite Lines" is based on an original idea by Collin Langley.

Kits Browning
Rebecca

'I'm glad I killed Rebecca. I shall never have any remorse for that, never, never. But you. I can't forget what it has done to you. I was looking at you, thinking of nothing else all through lunch. It's gone forever, that funny, young, lost look that I loved. It won't come back again. I killed that too, when I told you about Rebecca…It's gone, in twenty-four hours. You are so much older…'
Rebecca, Ch.21. p.335/336, Virago (2003).

One of my favourite quotes is from Rebecca and Maxim's admission to his wife, the second Mrs de Winter. Laurence Olivier delivered a slightly altered version of these lines quite superbly in Hitchcock's 1940 film. Kits Browning.

Christian 'Kits' Browning is Daphne du Maurier's son. CL.