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Wide Sargasso Sea QUOTES

Wide Sargasso Sea QUOTES

1 " It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of men's incomprehension of women, a symptom of women's mistrust of men. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

2 " Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

3 " Is it true,’ she said, ‘that England is like a dream? Because one of my friends who married an Englishman wrote and told me so. She said this place London is like a cold dark dream sometimes. I want to wake up.’
‘Well’, I answered annoyed, ‘that is precisely how your beautiful island seems to me, quite unreal and like a dream.’
‘But how can rivers and mountains and the sea be unreal?’
‘And how can millions of people, their houses and their streets be unreal?’
‘More easily,’ she said, ‘much more easily. Yes a big city must be like a dream. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

4 " Have all beautiful things sad destinies? "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

5 " Your husband certainly love money,' she said. 'That is no lie Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

6 " I thought if I told no one it might not be true. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

7 " As for her, I'd forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and the dream are true—all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

8 " The devil prince of this world, but this world don’t last so long for mortal man. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

9 " Very soon she'll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed eyes, aimless gestures, high-pitched laughter. The way they walk and talk and scream or try to kill (themselves or you) if you laugh back at them. Yes, they've got to be watched. For the time comes when they try to kill, then disappear. But others are waiting to take their places, it's a long, long line. She's one of them. I too can wait—for the day when she is only a memory to be avoided, locked away, and like all memories a legend. Or a lie ... "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

10 " What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

11 " When trouble comes, close ranks "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

12 " Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed.

But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

13 " As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you are buried under a flamboyant tree, ‘ I said, ‘your soul is lifted up when it flowers. Everyone wants that.’

She shook her head but she did not move or touch me. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

14 " When I was out on the battlements it was cool and I could hardly hear them. I sat there quietly. I don't know how long I sat. Then I turned round and saw the sky. It was red and all my life was in it. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

15 " The house was burning, the yellow-red sky was like the sunset...Nothing would be left, the golden ferns and the silver ferns, the orchids, the ginger lilies and the roses...When they had finished, there would be nothing left but blackened walls and the mounting stone. That was always left. That could not be stolen or burned. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

16 " And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did? "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

17 " You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world... "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

18 " I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

19 " If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We’ll see who hates best. But first, first I will destroy your hatred. Now. My hate is colder, stronger, and you’ll have no hate to warm yourself. You will have nothing. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea

20 " There is always another side, always. "

― Jean Rhys , Wide Sargasso Sea