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“I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor or pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“My mother smiled. "I know my baby wasn't like that."
I looked at her. "Like what?"
"Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital." She paused. "I knew you'd decide to be all right again.”
― The Bell Jar
I looked at her. "Like what?"
"Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital." She paused. "I knew you'd decide to be all right again.”
― The Bell Jar
“A million years of evolution," Eric said bitterly, "and what are we? Animals.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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