“All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.”
― Rooftop Soliloquy
― Rooftop Soliloquy
“I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.”
― Prozac Nation
― Prozac Nation
“Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
― The People Look Like Flowers at Last
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
― The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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