The Bell Jar

"I'm never going back to Tulsa, Oklahoma."

"I wanted to live in New York, and I did, for four months and three weeks."

"What a cruel thing, to say that virtue is not its own reward."

"It is awful to want to go home and have nowhere to go."

"Wherever I sit seems to be the head of the table."

"Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. You're crazy when you surrender to the chaos inside you."

"I am I am I am."

"I felt very low. I felt I was very low and that nothing could possibly be done about it."

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."

"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles and skirts and in the palm of your hand."