“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone.”
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.”