“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.
--from "Cut", written 24 October 1962”
― Ariel: The Restored Edition
The thin
Papery feeling.
--from "Cut", written 24 October 1962”
― Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”
― Journals of Sylvia Plath
― Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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