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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.
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.
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“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” ― Sylvia Plath, quote from The Bell Jar. Copy text. “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, quote from The Bell Jar. Copy text.
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It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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