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“Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: ‘I’ll go take a hot bath.” ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood, Chapter 2, Page 19. “I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I should any more.
- Sylvia Plath, Frances Monson McCullough, Lois Ames
- 1963
- “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.
- “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
- “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
- “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
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Mar 16, 2020 · To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. 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.
Important Quotes Explained. To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. This quotation comes from the last chapter of the novel, in which Esther attempts to draw some conclusions about the experiences she has undergone.
