Jerry McLean

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (...) I want, I think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself "The girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be—perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. I am I—I am powerful—but to what extent? I am I.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“...for I realized how narrow my world had been and that self-education could be and should be an exciting life-long adventure.”
― Aurelia Schober Plath, Letters Home