Jean Rhys: Likeness

Jean Rhys was novelist from Dominica. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.”

Jean Rhys

Source: Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

Life

“Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.”

Jean Rhys book Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

Lie , Justice , Time

“that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.”

Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

People , Dreams

“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.”

Jean Rhys

Source: After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie