“They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.”
More from Jean Rhys
“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be…”
“We can’t all be happy, we can’t all be rich, we can’t all be lucky – and it would be so…”
“Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.”