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The Bell Jar Quotes With Page Numbers. “I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood, Chapter 1, Page 2. “I guess I should have been excited the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn’t get myself to react.
- “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.
- “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.
The Bell Jar Quotes Showing 571-600 of 977 “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.’
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Quotes tagged as "the-bell-jar" Showing 1-30 of 55. “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”. ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar. tags: sylvia-plath , ted-hughes , the-bell-jar. 2220 likes.
Explanation of the famous quotes in The Bell Jar, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
patched. heart. blood. slowing down. summer. success. colleges. View All Quotes. #2: “My trouble was I took everything Buddy Willard told me as the honest-to-God truth.” #3: “All I’d heard about, really, was how fine and clean Buddy was and how he was the kind of person a girl should stay fine and clean for.”.