alba ’s Reviews > The Journals of Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962 > Status Update

"Why is it that I find it so difficult to accept the present moment, whole as an apple, without cutting and hacking at it to find a purpose, or setting it up on a shelf with other apples to measure its worth or trying to pickle it in brine to preserve it, and crying to find it turns all brown and is no longer simply the lovely apple I was given in the morning?"

"To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love." she just get it

"God, what a life - living in the future and the past and existing merely in the present"

"there is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get"