...there is peace in despair in exactly the same way as there is despair in peace ("Outside the Machine") - Wide Sargasso Sea

I think that the Anglo-Saxon idea that you can be rude with impunity to any female who has written a book is utterly damnable. You come and have a look out of curiosity and then allow the freak to see what you think of her. It's only done to the more or less unsuccessful and only by Anglo-Saxons. Well... if it were my last breath I'd say HELL TO IT and to the people who do it- (1936)

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first? (chapter 12)

...There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. (Part One, 9th section)