Melissa Tate

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.”
― Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

“I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens.

Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.”
― Kat Clark

“He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.”
― A. Alvarez, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide