Source: Tales of the wide Caribbean
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Famous Jean Rhys Quotes
Source: Tales of the wide Caribbean
“Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
Source: Quartet
Source: Quartet
Source: Quartet
“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“I am the only real truth I know.”
Source: Women Fiction 2
“The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.”
“Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.”
Source: My Day: Three Pieces
“Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.”
“Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.”
“I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.”
“I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.”
“As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.”
“There is always the other side, always.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.”
“When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.”
“I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.”
“I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.”