“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Women
― Women
“I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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“What about him?” she’d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. “Do you want to kiss him?”
“I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.”
― Fangirl
“I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.”
― Fangirl
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