Status Updates From Good Morning, Midnight

“That was the high spot—when I had nothing to eat for three weeks, except coffee and a croissant in the morning.”

glad to know depressed girlies were the same in 1939 as they are now

And I’m very much afraid of the whole bloody human race … Who wouldn’t be afraid of a pack of damned hyenas?

I mean that you feel better than you think.

And, after all, the agitation is only on the surface. Underneath I’m indifferent. Underneath there is always stagnant water, calm , indifferent - the bitter peace that is very near to death, to hate …

And, after all, the agitation is only on the surface. Underneath I’m indifferent. Underneath there is always stagnant water, calm, indifferent - the bitter peace that is very near to death, to hate…

But now she had got so that she would do anything not to see people.

Everything in their whole bloody world is a cliche. Everything is born out of cliche, rests on a cliche, survives by a cliche. And they believe in the cliches - there’s no hope.

it’s hard to pull off an … but jean rhys is … pulling
it off … successfully … also … if i would have read this book before i got my act together … it would have destroyed me