Powerful Quotes from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

18 October, 2024

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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

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"If you expect nothing from somebody, you are never disappointed."

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"The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence."

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"The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it."

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"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’"

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"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."

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"The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther."

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