“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“She was not one for emptying her face of expression. ”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
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