Quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and...”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
bathtub water

“I woke to the sound of rain.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
beauty-in-literature rain simple subtle

“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, The Bell Jar
chaos emptiness normalcy numbness

“I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didnt taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
alcohol drinking

“I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't seem to be summer any more”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
bell-jar floor safe still

“It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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