She said 'darling' with her lips, but her heart was dead. (chapter 5) - Wide Sargasso Sea

One shuts one's eyes and sees it written: red letters on a black ground:
Le Saut dans l'Inconnu. . . . Le Saut...
Stupidly I think: But why in French? Of course it must be a phrase I have read somewhere. Idiotic. I screw up my eyes wildly to get rid of it: next moment it is back again. Red letters on a black ground. One lies staring at the exact shape of the S.

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

...What is not there you put in afterwards, for it is alive, this book, and it grows in your head. ("Till September Petronella")