Veronica Stemmler > Veronica's Quotes

“Disappear here”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
― Epictetus

“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”
― Jay McInerney

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“People are afraid to merge.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“To the person in The Bell Jar, black and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself
is a bad dream”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“My mother smiled. "I know my baby wasn't like that."
I looked at her. "Like what?"
"Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital." She paused. "I knew you'd decide to be all right again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar