Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Quotes

• “But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as ...”
• “I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one,...”
• “I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for mi...”
• “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to sile...”
• “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying...”
• “What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future...”
• “I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that b...”
• “The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit...”
• “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be h...”
• “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
• “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
• “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
• “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
• “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”