“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“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
“And I. I too.
Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.”
― Transformations
Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.”
― Transformations
“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”
― Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
― Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”
― Journals of Sylvia Plath
― Journals of Sylvia Plath
Katy’s 2025 Year in Books
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