# Wide Sargasso Sea

- Author: [Jean Rhys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-rhys/wide-sargasso-sea

## Quotes

> So it was all over, the advance and retreat, the doubts and hesitations. Everything finished, for better or for worse. (first lines)

> She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

> They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. But we were not in their ranks. The Jamaican ladies had never approved of my mother, ‘because she pretty like pretty self’ Christophine said. (first lines)

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

> I woke the next morning knowing that nothing would be the same. It would change and go on changing.

> It was a beautiful place - wild, untouched, above all untouched, with an alien, disturbing, secret loveliness. And it kept its secret. I'd find myself thinking, 'What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing'.

> Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow.

> I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.

> "...Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.