Quotes by Jean Rhys

Its funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girls clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

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.

I am the only real truth I know.

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

“Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rests a lie.”

“I thought if I told no one it might not be true.”

“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”