

“I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string.
I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses.
--from "Three Women", written March 1962”
― The Collected Poems
I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses.
--from "Three Women", written March 1962”
― The Collected Poems

“I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― The Canterville Ghost
― The Canterville Ghost
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