She had to live in this bright red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand their fears...

She had to live in this bright red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand their fears and hopes and makebelieve.
Daphne Du Maurier

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I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face and red rims to my eyes.
- Daphne Du Maurier

She had to live in this bright red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand their fears and hopes and makebelieve. Daphne Du Maurier

She had to live in this bright red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand their fears and hopes and makebelieve.
Daphne Du Maurier