“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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