Quotes by : Jean Rhys

I had started out in life trusting everyone and now I trusted no one. So I had a few acquaintances and....

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be....

As for her, I'd forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly,....

Do you think that too," she said, "that I have slept too long in the moonlight?

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.

It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water,....

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?....

Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn....

I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel....