"There was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were..."

“There was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detatched, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.”

- Daphne DuMaurier (via sleepybutterflies)