How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"You thought I loved Rebecca? You thought I killed her, loving her? I hated her, I tell you. Our marriage was a farce from the very first. She was vicious, damnable, rotten through and through. We never loved each other, never had one moment of happiness together. Rebecca was incapable of love, of tenderness, of decency." (20.30)
Notice how clever this is. Say, for argument's sake, Maxim really does love Rebecca, and he kills her because he's jealous of her affairs. It wouldn't really do to tell this to Mrs. de Winter. It's much better if he says he killed Rebecca because he hated her and because she tormented him. As always, it's hard to tell if Maxim is being manipulative, sincere, or both.
Quote #11
"I thought about Manderley too much […] I put Manderley first, before anything else. And it does not prosper, that sort of love. They don't preach about it in the churches. Christ said nothing about stones, and bricks, and walls, the love that a man can bear for his plot of earth, his soil, his little kingdom."(20.44)
This is a confusing line. It seems like Maxim is suggesting that while the Christian faith preaches that you should love your spouse, and not kill people, it doesn't tell you how to live when you are too in love with your house. Well, he's 0 for 2, so a third miss can't hurt much, right?