The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
Unitarian.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn’t see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn’t sleep.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
Now the one thing this article didn’t seem to me to consider was how a girl felt.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the coloured arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
felt like a racehorse in a world without race-tracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit,
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
wished with all my heart I could crawl into her and spend the rest of my life barking out one idiom after another. It mightn’t make me any happier, but it would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles.