Jessica

“My heroine would be myself, only in disguise.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“We’ll take up where we left off, Esther’, she had said, with her sweet martyr’s smile. ‘We’ll act as if all this were a bad dream.’
A bad dream.
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
A bad dream.
I remembered everything.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force”
― Angela Carter

“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City