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Off 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 had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.
- I've eaten a bag of Green apples. Boarded the train, there's no getting off
- That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an…
- I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted…
- They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
- I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a…
- I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
- Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to…
- The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.
- I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
- What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the…
- I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do…
- I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and…
- There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and…
- My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
- God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the…
- I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.
- What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
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