I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, moun... - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."
"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."
"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."
"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, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth."
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."