“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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“Even the smallest light can grow until there’s no darkness left.”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Beauty Awakened
“I want love and I won't settle for less”
― Sylvia Day, quote from The Stranger I Married
“it matters less how much more you make than what you do with what you already have.”
― quote from The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
“[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from Sylvester
“In the countryside by nights without the moon, there sometimes roamed an indigent, a recycled reject with eyes sifting the darkness and sorting the scattered scents, walking beside deep hollows and ditches of stinking water. The hours he kept were usually reserved for the drunk and the sleeping. With his sloe-lidded eyes that in the daytime tried to hide from the sun, he spied treasures all over the land. No thing unlocked was safe from his grasp, he who could squat in the road and talk to the dogs and still their dying growls, all save one”
― Larry Brown, quote from Joe
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