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“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Bastard Out of Carolina
― Bastard Out of Carolina
“The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The only trouble was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life. No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“this fresh-cut-grass smell was the olfactory scream of the plants.”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
“The sight of all the food stacked in those kitchens made me dizzy. It's not that we hadn't enough to eat at home, it's just that my grandmother always cooked economy joints and economy meat loafs and had the habit of saying, the minute you lifted the first forkful to your mouth, "I hope you enjoy that, it cost forty-one cents a pound," which always made me feel I was somehow eating pennies instead of Sunday roast.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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