“Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow.
I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.”
― The Blind Assassin
I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.”
― The Blind Assassin
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
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“since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
― E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
― E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
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