4 notes "I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead."
— The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
12 notes "A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly."
— The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
31 notes "But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion."
— Sylvia Plath
12 notes "There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them."
— Sylvia Plath
32 notes "It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me."
— Sylvia Plath
40 notes "I am going quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be."
— Sylvia Plath
24 notes "I think I’m in love with missing you more than I’m in love with you."
— Sylvia Plath
29 notes "I desire the things that will destroy me in the end."
— Sylvia Plath
9 notes "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
— The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
4 notes "Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences."
— The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
13 notes "I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."
— The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
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re-reading the bell jar, sylvia plath you were a literary goddess.
