How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
We have no secrets now from one another. All things are shared. Granted that our little hotel is dull, and the food indifferent, and that day after day dawns very much the same, yet we would not have it otherwise. (2.5)
Maxim and Mrs. de Winter's present life sounds monotonous and dull – a sharp contrast to the chaos of the past she goes on to describe. Which would you prefer?
Quote #5
"All memories are bitter, and I prefer to ignore them. Something happened a year ago that altered my whole life, and I want to forget every phase in my existence up to that time. Those days are finished. They are blotted out. I must begin living all over again." (5.30)
Maxim tells the soon to be Mrs. de Winter this when he's courting her in Monte Carlo. It doesn't exactly sound like he has happy memories of life with Rebecca, but Mrs. de Winter doesn't have enough information, or experience, to entertain that possibility yet.
Quote #6
We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass. (6.2)
This is Mrs. de Winter speaking in the novel's present, years after the events at Manderley that make up the bulk of the tale. She's about to embark on her memories of Manderley. The line suggests that she's trapped in her memories of Manderley. It also suggests she knows that her existence during that time was cracked, fractured, broken in some way.