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Some Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.
- It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another…
- Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as…
- Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
- 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…
- Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out…
- 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…
- When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath.…
- The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and…
- It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up…
- Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or…
- I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek…
- I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid…
- …'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be…
- …* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little.…
- Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the…
- What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school…
- I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit…
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