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I was reading through page 37 when I suddenly noticed the main character is named Esther Greenwood. Up until then, I had been questioning the reason why I felt such a strong connection to this character.
GOOD GOD, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU SYLVIA PLATH.

“And it’s a temptation for any intelligent person, and especially for perfectionists such as the ancients and ourselves, to try to murder the primitive, emotive, appetitive self. But that is a mistake. “

“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry.
“And what is beauty?”
“Terror.”

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell and so forth!

“A dreamer is not a man, but some sort of sexless being, you see. For the most part, he makes his home somewhere in an inaccessible corner, as if he were hiding there even from the light of day, and once he goes into hiding, he sticks to his corner, like a snail, or at any rate, he very much resembles in this regard that entertaining animal, both animal and house at the same time, which is called a tortoise”