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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
Memorable Quotes by Esther (Narration):
“I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, and this made me even sadder and more tired. (page 30)”
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. (page 44)”
“It mightn't make me any happier, but it would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles.”
“It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.”
“I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.)”
“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”
“I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles, threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.I am, I am, I am.”
“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom. I thought seven stories must be a safe distance. (p. 112)”
“All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt suprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air”
“A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.”
“The sun, emerged from its ray shrouds of cloud, shone with a summer brilliance on the untouched slopes. Pausing in my work to overlook that pristine expanse, I felt the same profound thrill it gives me to see trees and grassland waist-high under flood water – as if the usual order of the world had shifted slightly, and entered a new phase.”
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