"It was the darkness that got you. It……" — Jean Rhys
"It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe."
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89 Quotes by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys has 89 quotes on this site.
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Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my…
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness...
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All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the…
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I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
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Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
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Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
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I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
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I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under…
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I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
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If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
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