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all his studies were aimed at finding the one true language of the universe.
“I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.
That would fix a lot of people. ”
― The Bell Jar
That would fix a lot of people. ”
― The Bell Jar
“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
Kira’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kira’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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