“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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