“somehow I knew I'd linger long after the homestead was lost and I'd become secrets and stories told around fires.”
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“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.”
― The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
― The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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