Quotes by Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

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I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drug — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment t — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
These people all fling themselves at me. Because I am uneasy and sad they all fling themselves at me larger than life. B — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every nig — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Well, that was the end of me, the real end. Two pound ten every Tuesday and a room of the Gray's Inn Road. Saved, rescue — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
And I’ll look back at him because I shan’t be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years t — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
And then the days came when I was alone. — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Now, money, for the night is coming. Money for my hair, money for my teeth, money for shoes that won't deform my feet (i — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
I want more of this feeling - fire and wings. — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies. — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room. — Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight