“I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Blot out the moon,
Pull down the stars.
Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
So soon, so soon.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
Pull down the stars.
Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
So soon, so soon.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
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