Best Jean Rhys Quotations
- I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now. All
- Life if curious when reduced to its essentials Curious
- For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take… Bitter
- Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie. All
- It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them? Clothes
- There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about. Always Two
- Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. All
- Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the… All
- One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All… All
- Have all beautiful things sad destinies? All
- Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. Alone
- I am the only real truth I know. Acceptance
- Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. All
- The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, "As it was in the beginning, is now, and… Beginning