Quotes by Jean Rhys

“I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.”

“It was a beautiful place - wild, untouched, above all untouched, with an alien, disturbing, secret loveliness. And it kept its secret. I'd find myself thinking, 'What I see is nothing - I want what...”

“Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow.”

“...Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.”

“'Quite like old times,' the room says. 'Yes? No?'There are two beds, a big one for madame and a smaller one on the opposite side for monsieur. The wash-basin is shut off by a curtain. It is a large...”

“I...think about being hungry, being cold, being hurt, being ridiculed, as if it were in another life than this.This damned room - it's saturated with the past. . . .It's all the rooms I've ever sle...”

“It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known. It was almost like being born again. The colours were different, the smells different, the feeling things gave you right down ...”

“I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day. (Part One, 7th section)”

“...There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. (Part One, 9th section)”

“It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running. (Part tw...”

“She seemed to be contemplating a future at once monotonous and insecure with an indifference which was after all a sort of hard-won courage. (chapter 3)”