Favorite Quotes from 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath

Randomly picked this book up at the Yonkers Barnes & Nobel during a week long stint of housesitting my childhood home (just like Intimations) Never read anything by Plath before. I really enjoyed the first 100 pages and apparently only thought to take notes for the first 25 pages. This book is very dark but has a satisfying ending.

• “I thought it must be the worst thing in the world. New York was bad enough.” (p. 1)

• “I was supposed to be having the time of my life.” (p. 2)

• “I guess I should have been excited the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn’t get myself to react.” (p.3 )

• “My dream was someday ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.” (p. 10)

• “I felt like a hole in the ground.” (p. 16)

• “Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: ‘I’ll go take a hot bath.’” (p.19)

• “I opened the door and blinked out into the 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.” (p. 21)

• “Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.” (p. 25)