“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)