Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Deji

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Deji.


The Bell Jar
Deji is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Reading for the 2nd time
read in February 2023
Rate this book
Clear rating

Deji Deji said: " I really enjoyed the image Plath built in my head. It feels like somewhere I'd love to stay for a week or watch from a far.


ReRead
This book starts of really hopeful and let’s us know Esther ends up okay. I think this is a very important novel, that I’
...more "

progress: 
 
  (page 148 of 294)
"It’s just so good" — Sep 08, 2026 02:29PM

 
Loading...
Susanna Kaysen
“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

Elizabeth Wurtzel
“I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me. ”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

Susanna Kaysen
“Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

Sylvia Plath
“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

Seneca
“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
― Seneca

year in books
Leah-May
300 books | 5 friends

Kimberl...
501 books | 22 friends

Arely A
416 books | 22 friends

Amy She...
33 books | 4 friends

Holly P...
49 books | 3 friends





Polls voted on by Deji

Lists liked by Deji