It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?
My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that ar… - Jean Rhys
My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that ar…
- Jean Rhys
And then the days came when I was alone. - Jean Rhys
And then the days came when I was alone.
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rh… - Jean Rhys
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rh…
A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is. - Jean Rhys
A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.
You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world. - Jean Rhys
You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. - Jean Rhys
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself;… - Jean Rhys
When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself;…
I am the only real truth I know. - Jean Rhys
I am the only real truth I know.
There is always the other side, always. - Jean Rhys
There is always the other side, always.
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