Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea Quotes

Have all beautiful things sad destinies?

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

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

Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow

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.

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

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

Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.

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

When trouble comes, close ranks