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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 felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must ...
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- 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.
Important Quotes Explained. 1. Look what can happen in this country, they’d say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for nineteen years, so poor she can’t afford a magazine, and then she gets a scholarship to college and wins a prize here and a prize there and ends up steering New York like her own private car.
Copy text. “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”. ― Sylvia Plath, quote from The Bell Jar. Copy text. “When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”.
Mar 16, 2020 · Sylvia Plath Quotes From The Bell Jar. I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. 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. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and ...
Recommended quote pages. #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.”.
