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The Bell Jar
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Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.
“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom...”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
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