“The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.”

— Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 6
Context: Then he just stood there in front of me and I kept on staring at him. The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.

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