Chamber Quote by Sylvia Plath

It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me. I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms…

— Stephenie Meyer

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by…

— Marcus Brigstocke

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth,…

— Randall Jarrell

All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first…

— Karen Marie Moning

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that…

— Anne Lamott

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

— Skeet Ulrich

Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/…

— Kevin Brooks

I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part…

— Anonymous

Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic…

— Tatsuhiko Takimoto

Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back…

— Waris Dirie

Once it was clear that Donald Trump would be president instead of Hillary Clinton, I felt sick to my stomach. I wanted to gather…

— Stephanie Land