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“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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