The Blue Hour Quotes

“The only time she felt excited or happy was when she had had a drink because then anything might happen. That feeling of insecurity became exciting.”
― Lilian Pizzichini, The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys

“But nothing could touch her because there was nothing to touch.”
― Lilian Pizzichini, The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys

“...she gave him all the love she could not give herself. She loved him becasue he was the embodiment of those attributes she wanted for herself...”
― Lilian Pizzichini, The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys

“It is as though she was a phantom watching from the shadows. This at least is how she 'writes' herself: as an absence on which others projected their desires and anxieties.”
― Lilian Pizzichini, The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys

“In her writings, she despises her fellow man and woman for representing what she had lost.”
― Lilian Pizzichini, The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys

“She could make excuses to keep the fantasy intact.”
― Lilian Pizzichini, The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys