Abigail’s Reviews > The Bell Jar > Status Update

“I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree”

“I’d adored him from a distance for five years before he even looked at me,”

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“The words fell with a hollow flatness on to Jay Cee’s desk, like so many wooden nickels”

“I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty”

“I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel”