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- "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, Chapter 8 "Show us how happy it makes you to write a poem."
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. 969,586 ratings, 4.05 average rating, 57,321 reviews. The Bell Jar Quotes Showing 1-30 of 991. “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 ...
The Bell Jar Quotes With Page Numbers, chapters, and who said them from Sylvia Plath's book.
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- 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.
- The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
- The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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.”.
