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Say Quotes by Jean Rhys
- They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
- Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.
- Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)
- But why do you want to talk to me?' He is going to say: 'Because you look so kind,' or 'Because you look so beautiful…
- I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a Cérébrale…
- Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word…
- If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too…
- that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what…
- 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…
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