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.


Tales of the wide Caribbean (ed. Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1985)

Jean Rhys Quotes

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; ...

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; ...

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; ...

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; ...