“If I was going to kill myself,” Plath continued, “I’d leave a note just to get a few last digs in. Insult the guy who took me to prom. Give my parents one last guilt trip. Criticize my ex-husband’s penis.… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Lydia sometimes saw Plath as the woman she might someday become: caring, creative, content—but inaccessible to nearly everyone alive.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“one of the kinder nuns had lauded Carol for how original she was in her sinfulness, as if God had yet to announce the… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“All words are masks, and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. —Steven Millhauser, “August Eschenburg” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“To the inexperienced, many BookFrogs appeared as derelict or homeless, but to the seasoned eye it was clear that they’d shed themselves of the… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“Libraries were havens for everyone, he might've told her, not just the clean and productive.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“Something’s wrong in the air, you know, when a book costs less than a bullet. Or a Coke. Values-wise. Lydia” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“If you want to pay respects, by the way, he's at the zoo." "At the zoo? As in the zoo?" "Joey liked to walk… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“They make knives out of Jolly Ranchers. And if you heat up a candy bar with caramel and chocolate you can basically burn someone’s… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“It’s quite a library, anyway,” she said, trying to sound upbeat. “I’ve begun to think of it as more graveyard than library. End of… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“If I was going to kill myself,” Plath continued, “I’d leave a note just to get a few last digs in. Insult the guy… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“Lydia sometimes saw Plath as the woman she might someday become: caring, creative, content—but inaccessible to nearly everyone alive.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“What are you doing out here anyway?” “Lydia,” Plath said after a cold pause, “that is one question you should never have to ask… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“Something’s wrong in the air, you know, when a book costs less than a bullet. Or a Coke. Values-wise.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
“…he'd spent his whole life trying in vain to find a place that, for him, was never allowed to exist.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share
