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Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys QUOTES

Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys QUOTES

1 " I had started out in life trusting everyone and now I trusted no one. So I had a few acquaintances and no close friends. It was perhaps in reaction against the inevitable loneliness of my life that I'd find myself doing bold, risky, even outrageous things without hesitation or surprise. I was usually disappointed in these adventures and they didn't have much effect on me, good or bad, but I never quite lost the hope of something better or different. "

― Jean Rhys , Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys

2 " 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. "

― Jean Rhys , Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys

3 " Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tackle that shed, not for any price she could afford. But crying relieved her and she soon felt quite cheerful again. It was ridiculous to brood, she told herself. "

― Jean Rhys , Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys

4 " The maid came in to light up and soon it would be time to go upstairs and change for dinner. I thought this woman one of the most fascinating I had ever seen. She had a long thin face, dead white, or powdered dead white. Her hair was black and lively under her cap, her eyes so small that the first time I saw her I thought she was blind. But wide open, they were the most astonishing blue, cornflower blue, no, more like sparks of blue fire. Then she would drop her eyelids and her face would go dead and lifeless again. I never tired of watching this transformation. "

― Jean Rhys , Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys

5 " Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one? "

― Jean Rhys , Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys

6 " There is no control over memory. "

― Jean Rhys , Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys