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Miles thought of the word she’d had on the small of her back: hiraeth. She’d said it was a Welsh word that meant homesickness for a home you can never return to or that never was.
“You can tell all the stories you want, but you still haven’t gotten across what the experience was like. It’s like telling somebody a dream. It doesn’t give them the dream. So”
― Room to Dream
― Room to Dream
“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“People think anger is an edge, but anger is a weakness that poisons you and the environment around you.”
― Room to Dream
― Room to Dream
“I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.”
― The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 2: 1956-1963
― The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 2: 1956-1963
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