“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
and I eat men like air.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Is it the sea you hear in me?
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?
Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“No day is safe from news of you.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I used to pray to recover you.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“There is a charge
For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge
For the hearing of my heart -
It really goes.
And there is a charge, a very large charge,
For a word or a touch
Or a bit of blood
Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I am still raw.
I say I may be back.
You know what lies are for.
Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“A ring of gold with the sun in it?
Lies. Lies and a grief.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B.
Once you were beautiful.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.
A far sea moves in my ear.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“This is what it is to be complete. It is horrible.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“And we, too, had a relationship—
Tight wires between us,
Pegs too deep to uproot, and a mind like a ring
Sliding shut on some quick thing,
The constriction killing me also.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“All the gods know is destinations.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“This is a case without a body.
The body does not come into it at all.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“There is a green in the air,
Soft, delectable.
It cushions me lovingly.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I cannot undo myself, and the train is steaming.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel: The Restored Edition
Sylvia Plath
Born place: in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, The United States
Born date October 27, 1932
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“In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.
In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.
I liked the Irish way better.”
― C.E. Murphy, quote from Urban Shaman
“I believe in magic. In evil sorceresses who deep down are really beautiful princesses. I believe in immortals who live in a different world than this one, accessible by magical stone wheels.”
― Morgan Rhodes, quote from Crystal Storm
“Many women think their husbands are not worth the effort. They feel they are forced to humble themselves in order to love him when he is the guilty party. Do not be deceived. When a woman is willing to forgive and win back her husband’s affection, she is winning more than just his affection. Once a man comes to his senses and sees how close he came to losing all that he holds dear, he will be profoundly thankful to the good woman who loved him through his foolishness. She will win his respect as well as his love, because he will know that she is the kind of woman who will stand by her man. Few”
― Debi Pearl, quote from Created to be His Help Meet
“إن المفترين على الحياة هم الذين يعيشون غالبا حياة طويلة و يانعة. و من المهم أن نقارن على سبيل المثال بين قدر شوبنهاور المفتري على الحياة و نيتشه الشاهد عليها، أو بين دي ساد المنحط جنسيا و لورنس الصوفي في الجنس”
― Colin Wilson, quote from The Mind Parasites
“Tell me what to do, not how to do it.' Decentralize command and allow subordinates to operate freely within the framework of the commander's intent. Train them as a team. Develop trust, loyalty, initiative.”
― quote from One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
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