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

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

- 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…

- 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.

- 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.

- Jean Rhys

I am the only real truth I know.

- Jean Rhys

There is always the other side, always.

- 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;…

- Jean Rhys