“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
― The Bell Jar
― 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
“But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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