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The Bell Jar
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then
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“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe
“The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
“You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
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