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I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath. I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near on to an hour, and felt myself growing pure again.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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I felt myself shrinking into a small black dot against all those red and white rugs and that pine panelling. I felt like a hole in the ground.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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She's cute, but you don't need a girl who treats you like you're ten: you've already got a mom.

John Green, Looking for Alaska

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It's big and filled with nature and everybody lives quietly. So quietly you sometimes feel like this is the real, normal world.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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I told them my grandmother seemed to believe that the window of the soul was hair, instead of eyes. My mother giggled. Around her mother, she became my age. My father said: Hair is the roof of the soul.

Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (via quoteshelf)