Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“They touch life with gloves on. They're pretending about something all the time. Pretending quite nice and decent things, of course. But… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people.… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“The Place Blanche, Paris, Life itself. One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The rest of… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And you know… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“She spent the foggy day in endless, aimless walking, for it seemed to her that if she moved quickly enough she would escape the… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
