Molly

“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The inventor of the mirror did few of us any favours: we must have been happier before we knew what we looked like.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“My drink was wet and depressing. Each time I took another sip it tasted more and more like dead water”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar