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“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.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“´You like big words? I´ll give you one: perspective. That´s what I´m doing here, Laila. Making sure you don´t lose perspective.´ What turned Laila´s stomach the rest of the night was that every word Rasheed had uttered, every last one, was true.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard's kitchen mat.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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