The-bell-jar Quotes

I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too fu...

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have ...

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the poi...

We’ll take up where we left off, Esther’, she had said, with her sweet martyr’s smile. ‘We’ll act as...

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me ...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head...

She looked terrible, but very wise.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ...

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered ...

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be w...