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)
Unitarian.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
‘If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.’
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)
It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction – every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at
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didn’t know shorthand either. This meant I couldn’t get a good job after college.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
The only trouble was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn’t take up the whole of your life. No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.