“You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.”Jean Rhys book Good Morning, MidnightSource: Good Morning, Midnight
“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, MidnightSource: Good Morning, Midnight
“One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.”Jean Rhys Source: Quartet
“Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.”Jean Rhys book Good Morning, MidnightSource: Good Morning, Midnight