“-I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I. I am sitting at my desk looking out at a bright antiseptic January day, with an icy wind whipping the sky into a white-and-blue froth. I […]
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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.”- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
“I am learning in peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965)
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”- Sylvia Plath
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)