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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to sile — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it. — Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead — I lift my eyes and all is born again.
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
We’ll take up where we left off, Esther’, she had said, with her sweet martyr’s smile. ‘We’ll act as if all this were a — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. — Sylvia Plath
I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
She looked terrible, but very wise. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when — Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one p — Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean — Arlaina Tibensky, And Then Things Fall Apart