“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
― Pygmalion
― Pygmalion
“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
― The Pilot's Wife
― The Pilot's Wife
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