“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
―
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
―
“If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I've always liked the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be so it's easier to remember who I am.”
― Trusting Soul: Collected Stories & Drawings
― Trusting Soul: Collected Stories & Drawings
“So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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