More quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"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."
"But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get."
"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."
"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."