{"author":"Jean Rhys","author_id":"Jean+Rhys","total_quotes":53,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["brooding","crying","lonely","old-age"],"id":5351,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["illusion","importance","shadow","substance","value"],"id":19281,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"These people all fling themselves at me. Because I am uneasy and sad they all fling themselves at me larger than life. But I can put my arm up to avoid the impact and they slide gently to the ground. Individualists, completely wrapped up in themselves, thank God. It's the extrovert, prancing around, dying for a bit of fun - that's the person you've got to be wary of.","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["extroversion","extrovert","fun","individualist","life","people","sad","uneasy","wary"],"id":19476,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["alone","solitude"],"id":28317,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow.","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["life-lessons"],"id":30170,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["dies","eternity","fades","forgotten","moment"],"id":31733,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["heartbreak"],"id":45527,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And you know that there is no past, no future, there is only this blackness, changing faintly, slowly, but always the same.","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["blackness","future","past"],"id":49785,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"I thought if I told no one it might not be true.","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["reality","secret","tell","true","truth","wide-sargasso-sea"],"id":89816,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"},{"text":"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?","author":"Jean Rhys","tags":["beautiful","beauty","destiny","question","sad"],"id":90737,"author_id":"Jean+Rhys"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}