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“So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“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
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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Meredith’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Meredith’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
264 books
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212 friends
93 books
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10 friends
70 books
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122 friends
680 books
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547 books
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94 friends
201 books
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101 friends
0 books
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10 friends
443 books
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47 friends
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