After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Jean Rhys
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.”
“When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.”
“It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.”
“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.”
“The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?”
“If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.”
“He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.”
“The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.”
“Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.”
“...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.”
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