I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play.
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be.
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
I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in...
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.
That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.Save them for my funeral, I'd said.
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.
How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into.
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.
Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking w...
The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.
Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.
I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space,...
What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.
What do you have in mind after you graduate?What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a pro...
Life happens so hard and fast I sometimes wonder who is me...