Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Jean Rhys
Topics: Books, Reading
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
—Jean Rhys
Topics: Books, Reading
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
—Jean Rhys
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.
—Jean Rhys
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks.
—Jean Rhys
Topics: Age
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry.
—Jean Rhys
Topics: Crying
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