# Quote — Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie

> "It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong." (chapter 4)

- Author: [Jean Rhys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys.md)
- Book: [After Leaving Mr Mackenzie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys/after-leaving-mr-mackenzie.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Rhys#Part_II) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys/after-leaving-mr-mackenzie/its-so-easy

## More from this book

> When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul. (chapter 12)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys/after-leaving-mr-mackenzie/when-you-are.md)

> She seemed to be contemplating a future at once monotonous and insecure with an indifference which was after all a sort of hard-won courage. (chapter 3)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys/after-leaving-mr-mackenzie/she-seemed-to-be-contemplating.md)

> When you were nineteen, and it was the first time you had been let down, you did not make scenes. You felt as if your back was broken, as if you would never move again. But you did not make a scene. That started later on, when the same thing had happened five or six times over, and you were supposed to be getting used to it. (chapter 6)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys/after-leaving-mr-mackenzie/when-you-were.md)