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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.
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"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
