More quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."
"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."
"What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."