The Bell Jar
by
Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― 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
“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
― Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“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
“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
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