“So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. And does not smite me down.”
― The Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.
--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Ariel
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.
--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Ariel
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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