Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys, CBE, born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica, though she was mainly resident in England from the age of 16. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1894
forgotten moments eternity
Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
down-and awful bleeding
Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.
beautiful destiny beautiful-things
Have all beautiful things sad destinies?
easy persons seems
It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
wall darkness like-you
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.
unhappiness strangeness
...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
wind people unhappy
He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.
sea sound rising
The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
white people trouble
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
knows
I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.
rooms old-time
Quite like old times,' the room says.
rooms old-time
Quite like old times,' the room says.
smell rooms bugs
The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
beautiful nice swings
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.