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Back Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative…
- ... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...
- When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.
- Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.
- What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis;…
- I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau…
- I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
- I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
- At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.
- I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I…
- I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key;…
- Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of…
- It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.
- I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.
- ..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my…
- Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness,…
- Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.
- As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I…
- What I want back is what I was.
- I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will
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