Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
SYLVIA PLATHI have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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