“There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“It's cold today, but in a spring way, and I love you.”
― Letters to Vera
― Letters to Vera
“Many of them, like him, would never grow old enough to understand that you only go from one hardship to another. And that the best we can hope from life is that it is a wonderful depression.”
― The Lonely Hearts Hotel
― The Lonely Hearts Hotel
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