229 Quotes by Jean Rhys

It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.

A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened... And then the days came and I was alone.

Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.

I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.