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01Undated

Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tackle that shed, not for any price she could afford. But crying relieved her and she soon felt quite cheerful again. It was ridiculous to brood, she told herself.

Jean Rhys / quote

02Undated

But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day.

Jean Rhys / quote

03Undated

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

Jean Rhys / quote

04Undated

For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.

Jean Rhys / quote

05Undated

I am the only real truth I know.

Jean Rhys / quote

06Undated

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Jean Rhys / quote