I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. — Jean Rhys Books Copy Share Image
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. — Jean Rhys Age Copy Share Image
I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go. — Jean Rhys Child Copy Share Image
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry. — Jean Rhys Advantage Copy Share Image
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. — Jean Rhys People Copy Share Image
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some. — Jean Rhys Bird Copy Share Image
I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world." Christophine to Antoinette” — Jean Rhys Dress Copy Share Image
It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“How can I discover truth I thought and that thought led me nowhere. No one would tell me the truth.” — Jean Rhys Thought Copy Share Image
that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting… — Jean Rhys Dream Copy Share Image
Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“When I was out on the battlements it was cool and I could hardly hear them. I sat there quietly. I don't… — Jean Rhys Fire 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
“As soon as you have reached this heaven of indifference, you are pulled out of it. From your heaven you have to… — Jean Rhys Dead to the world 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
“THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The… — Jean Rhys Dark Copy Share Image
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to… — Jean Rhys Book 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.… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“Nothing left but hopelessness.' Say die and I will die. Say die and watch me die.” — Jean Rhys Hopelessness Copy Share Image
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. — Jean Rhys Life Copy Share Image
...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness. — Jean Rhys Sadness Copy Share Image
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic. — Jean Rhys Bounds Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating. — Jean Rhys Adventure Copy Share Image
“You surpise me, because people nearly always force you to ask, don't they?” — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you” — Jean Rhys Thought Copy Share Image
Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life. — Jean Rhys Cold Copy Share Image
And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did? — Jean Rhys Betrayal Copy Share Image
