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“Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.”

Obsession Sylvia Plath Fangirl The Bell Jar Fangirling Identify With

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“If Doctor Nolan asked me for the matches, I would say I'd thought they were made out of candy and hat eaten them.”

Eating Candy Literary Sylvia Plath Matches The Bell Jar Doctor Nolan

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“I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.”

Sylvia Plath Page 147 The Bell Jar Faber

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“It was the day after Christmas and a gray sky bellied over us, fat with snow. I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.”

Christmas Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Seasonal Depression

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“In the infinitesimal glow of the stars, the trees and flowers were strewing their cool odos. There was no moon.”

Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Modern Classics

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“Doreen is dissolving, Lenny Shepherd is dissolving, Frankie is dissolving, New York is dissolving, they are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore.I don't know them. I have never known them and I am very pure.”

The Bell Jar Hot Bath Doreen

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“The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own silly letters.”

Hate Trouble Letters Literary Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Serving Men

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