“Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
--From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song”
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But I grow old and I forget your name.
--From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song”
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“I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near”
― Aleph
― Aleph
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