“You’ve got to wonder what Jesus was like at seventeen,” Anne Lamott wrote. “They don’t even talk about it in the Bible, he was apparently so awful.”
― Beautiful Boy
― Beautiful Boy
“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
“Obviously, doctor, you've never been a thirteen year-old girl.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little. But I was little too”
― Letter to His Father
― Letter to His Father
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