Able Quote by Jean Rhys

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

— Sarah Dessen

...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter…

— Susan Minot

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

— David Nicholls

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women!…

— Emile Zola

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

— Anonymous

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside…

— Kate Chopin

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

— Gustave Flaubert

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

— John Green

What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he…

— Anthony Marra

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that…

— Ian Mcewan

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

— Anonymous

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

— George Eliot