Jean Rhys
Biography
Quotes
- I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
- Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it. Of course, life would soon change, open out, become quite different. You couldn't go on if you didn't hope that, could you? But for the time being there was no doubt that it was pleasant to get away from it. And books could take her away.
- There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
