I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
SYLVIA PLATHIf the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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