

“That’s a pretty heavy burden to bear, being everything for someone.”
― House of Hollow
― House of Hollow

“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

“And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Normal People
― Normal People

“Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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