See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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 sorrow.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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