Edwin Mcfee > Edwin's Quotes

“The joy that isn't shared dies young.”
― Anne Sexton

“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Rats live on no evil star”
― Anne Sexton

“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" [...] "But what did it mean?" I said. "What?", he said. "Oh, it meant 'Don't let the bastards grind you down'. I guess we thought we were pretty smart back then.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.”
― Anne Sexton

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin