I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn’t hide the truth much longer. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.
— The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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People showed you everything in what they left out.
Paint It Black by Janet Fitch
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That was the frightening part about believing in things. You could wake up one day and it could all be gone.
— Paint It Black by Janet Fitch
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…Even lies could be true, if you knew how to listen.
— Paint It Black by Janet Fitch
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