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Rooms Quotes by Jean Rhys
- I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
- Quite like old times,' the room says.
- A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.
- The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
- A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened...…
- My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets…
- Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread…
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