76,195 books
—
283,323 voters
“I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“...it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, 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
“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
Abbie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Abbie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Abbie
Lists liked by Abbie
























