“I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.”
― The Body
― The Body
“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
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