Jean Rhys

Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#love

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#loss #love #yearning #life

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

— Jean Rhys

#real #death

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials ↗

— Jean Rhys

#literary-fiction #life

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#first-sentence

Quite like old times,' the room says. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#first-sentence

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#i #life #like #much #novel

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#death

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

— Jean Rhys

#funny

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#aging #dread #youth #age