— the unabridged journals of sylvia plath

• «And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.»
• «I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.»
• «I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.»
• «I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.»
• «I am still so naive; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?»
• «The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.»
• «I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.»

— the bell jar

• «If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.»
• «I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.»
• «The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.»
• «If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.»