

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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