“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
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I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
―
“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.
--from "Daddy", written 12 October 1962”
― Ariel
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.
--from "Daddy", written 12 October 1962”
― Ariel
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