"...Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else. - Wide Sargasso Sea

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

So it was all over, the advance and retreat, the doubts and hesitations. Everything finished, for better or for worse. (first lines)

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. But we were not in their ranks. The Jamaican ladies had never approved of my mother, ‘because she pretty like pretty self’ Christophine said. (first lines)