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“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I don't know how long I kept at it…
I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.
It didn't seem to be summer any more”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Not being perfect hurts.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say "fine”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“… it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am myself. That is not enough.”

“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.

--From the poem "Elm", written 19 April 1962”

Source: The Collected Poems

“I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7

“My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“There was a beautiful time…”

“I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.”

“The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar