Bell Jar Quotations

I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

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

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

There was a beautiful time...

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

I am made, crudely, for success.

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

Don't let the wicked city get you down.