You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.
Jean RhysBut they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.
Jean Rhysbefore I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.
Jean RhysThe rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
Jean Rhys