La campana de cristal

The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.

I thought how strange it had never occured to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn't taste like anything but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallower's sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

Estaba diciendo que su madre decía : "El hombre es una flecha lanzada hacia el futuro, y la mujer es el lugar donde ésta es lanzada".

No hay nada como vomitar con alguien para llegar a ser viejos amigos.

Todo lo que ella decía era vomo una voz secreta que saliera de mis propios huesos.