Sylvia Plath

“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” - Sylvia Plath

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” - Sylvia Plath

“There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.” - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.” - Sylvia Plath

“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.” - Sylvia Plath

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.” - Sylvia Plath

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn’t pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.” - Sylvia Plath

“I am a garden of black and red agonies.” - Sylvia Plath

“I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.” - Sylvia Plath

“How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?” - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn’t get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.” - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.” - Sylvia Plath

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell.” - Sylvia Plath

“Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.” - Sylvia Plath