Anne Sexton Quote by Kimberly McCreight Download Open image ““ONE CAN'T BUILD LITTLE WHITE PICKET FENCES TO KEEP NIGHTMARES OUT. -Anne Sexton”” — Kimberly McCreight ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anne Sexton
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“Do I seem like the white-picket-fence sort of girl to you, Carl?" "No, you seem like the blood-soaked-walls kind of girl to me.” — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
“The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare.”~Unbreakable Heart” — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I’m not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don’t go building castles in the air. You’ll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.” — Maureen Child Copy Share Image
“I put down my pen - Miss Fortier has confirmed my suspicions. I know exactly what caused Anne's insanity. Books. Women and their books.” — Rachel Florence Roberts Copy Share Image
“Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror . . . and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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“...[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time...As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent… — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“One of the things that was great about my mom, as a mom, was that she always knew when she was being kind of… — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“Barbara had stopped by the PTA office to talk to some of the mothers there, and she may have said a thing or two… — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“I can live with you hating me for that. I'll have to. I can even live with you not hating him. Just dont forgive… — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on… — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.” — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“Contrary to previous assumptions, maternal depression can also manifest in a myriad of ways, many far different from what some might consider traditional depressive… — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“No one wanted to talk to a mother whose only child had just killed herself.” — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could… — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard. Character-based poems… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness to you… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us. As sleep is necessary to our physiology, so… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
