Rebecca Quotes

Last night I dreamt I went to __________ again.

Manderley

Time could not wreck the perfect __________ of those walls… a jewel in the hollow of a hand.

symmetry

Manderley was ours no longer. Manderley was __________.

no more

Nature…in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long, __________ fingers.

tenacious

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

quality

We have no __________ now from one another.

secrets

There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a __________.

week

That freezing superior __________ of hers.

smile

I suppose it is his dependence on me that has made me __________ at last.

bold

It meant that I was a youthful thing and __________.

unimportant

He would __________ down at us.

stare

Of course, you Englishmen are all the same about your __________.

homes

People will say anything won’t they when a woman is __________?

attractive

Bridge does not come easily for a mind brought up on Snap and __________ families.

Happy

Ninety pounds is a lot of __________ to me.

money

You have a home and I have __________.

none

I was a person of __________. I was grown up at last.

importance

She was a poor creature, and I thought of her with __________.

scorn

I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth form prefect, and he kinder, and far more __________.

inaccessible

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a __________ of pearls.

string

Stop biting those nails, they are ugly enough __________.

already

I would be a __________ boy again.

whipping

I suppose you are young enough to be my __________, and I don’t know how to deal with you.

daughter

Max. She called him __________.

Max

People like myself, quiet and dull and youthful, who did not __________.

matter

And I had to call him __________.

Maxim

All in your own __________.

class

I can’t afford to leave __________.

her

Which would you prefer? You can take your __________.

choice

I’m asking you to __________ me, you little fool.

marry

I’m not the sort of person men __________.

marry

I don’t belong to your sort of __________ for one thing.

world

I would be Mrs. __________.

De Winter

Manderley will belong to __________.

me

He had not said anything yet about being in __________.

love

I think you are making a big __________- one you will bitterly regret.

mistake

Poor lamb…you probably ought to have bought a lot of __________ in London.

clothes

Timid, foolish __________.

creature

The drive twisted and turned as a __________.

serpent

Slaughterous red, luscious and __________.

fantastic

Too beautiful, I thought, too powerful; they were not __________ at all.

plants

Gave her a skull’s face… set on a __________ frame.

skeleton’s

I guessed at once she considered me __________ bred.

ill

She doesn’t dare __________ me though.

bully

Ignoring the second rate, the mediocre, laying her hand with sure certain __________ only upon the best.

instinct

I’m afraid you have made a __________, I said, Mrs. De Winter has been dead for over a year.

mistake

Whatever you think Mrs. De Winter would have __________.

ordered

That tall sloping R dwarfing its __________.

fellows

My own handwriting, without individuality, without style, __________ even.

uneducated

You’re an absolute __________.

child

Maxim kept these things to himself that I __________ him never.

questioned

You were very young, very __________.

pretty

Of course she’s insanely __________. I was afraid she would be.

jealous

She simply adored __________.

Rebecca

He likes me in the way I like __________.

Jasper

You are so very different from __________.

Rebecca

Come on you lazy little __________… Shut up you idiot

beggar

But salmon, white, and gold, things of __________ and of grace.

beauty

Don’t be angry with me __________.

anymore

Good dog then, lie down, don’t worry me __________.

anymore

This was the hypersensitive behaviour of a __________.

neurotic

You must use your __________ with him.

influence

That cloud of dark hair against the very white __________.

skin

They came because they wanted to compare me to __________.

Rebecca

I hated __________.

myself

Not the sort of life I’ve been brought up to.

I suppose she was the most beautiful __________ I ever saw in my life.

creature

I had never thought about my underclothes before…I had not thought the material or the existence of __________ mattered.

lace

Mrs. Danvers knew the colour of her eyes, her smile, the texture of her __________.

hair

Don’t be a little __________.

idiot

I can’t understand __________.

you

I am like a between __________.

maid

I suppose that’s why you married me, I said, you knew I was dull and quiet and inexperienced, so that there would never be any __________ about me.

gossip

There are too many years between __________.

us

You are my father and my brother and my __________. All those things.

son

Maxim was my life and my __________.

world

You’ve got angel’s __________.

eyes

Tall and dark she was, he said, she gave you the feeling of a __________.

snake

If I catch you looking at me through the windows here I’ll have you put to the __________ she said.

asylum

I was a __________ again. An uninvited guest.

guest

How white and thin my face looked in the __________.

glass

Triumphant, gloating, excited in a strange unhealthy __________.

way

I haven’t washed it since she wore it for the last __________.

time

Everyone was angry with her when she cut her __________… Short hair was much easier for riding and sailing.

hair

They were torn from her body in the __________… there was nothing on her body when it was found.

water

He was always just a little ahead of me…I could not keep up with __________.

him

I looked plain, __________.

unattractive

I do hope you will produce a son and __________ before long.

heir

He’s leaving Eton, you know, he’s going up to __________.

Oxford

She had an amazing gift, Rebecca, I mean of being attractive to people, men, women, __________, dogs.

children

Playing the perfect host in his own inimitable __________.

way

I’m not a bride, I said, I did not even have a proper __________.

wedding

I wished he would not always treat me as a child, rather _________________, rather irresponsible.

spoilt

Would we never be together…standing shoulder to shoulder, __________ in hand with no gulf between us?

hand

I wanted to be his wife, his mother. I wanted to be __________.

old

But what goes on in the twisted torturous minds of __________ would baffle anyone.

women

A husband is not so very different from a __________ after all.

father

There is a certain type of knowledge I prefer you not to __________.

have

Like other men treat their wives…Knock you about you mean?

I did not recognise the face that stared at me in the __________.

glass