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The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such

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“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Sadness, Pain, Crying

“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Expectations, Disappointment

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Living, Life, purpose

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Expectations, Disappointments

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Nature

“I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Reflection, Music, Closed eyes

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, depressed, H4D-29

“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Hopelessness, Disappointment, Sad

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Hopelessness, Depression, Sad

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: self, Alone

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: heart, Listen, Love

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Spilled Ink, Inspirational, Suicide Prevention, Exisiting

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Literary Fame

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

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Helping, Hurting, Hoping

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books, Summertime, New York City

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Emptiness, Depression, Chaos

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Perfect Words

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship