Jean Rhys

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

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, 'As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.'

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin frail ghosts in my room.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.

She haunted him as an ungenerous action haunts one.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere heavy melancholy standing still.