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"I am always afraid of letting life slip by unobtrusively and waking up some fine morning to wail windgrieved around my tombstone." — Sylvia Plath

“When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.” — Sylvia Plath

The sadness of this is deep and heartbreaking. She really only wanted someone to love her. Horrific things happened to her instead.

There is almost too many moment by moment details in this huge bio, but when you get to the early 50s, it rips your heart out for this lovely woman writer/poet.

“Everything people did seemed so silly because they only died in the end.”