“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
― Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
“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 wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.”
― North and South
― North and South
“I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.”
― Dangerous Angels
― Dangerous Angels
“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
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