L > L's Quotes

“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone should be.”
― Clementine Paddleford

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. ”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.”
― Sarah Kane, Crave

“You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.”
― Sarah Kane, Crave

“You’ll be all right. You’re strong. I know you’ll be okay because I like you and you can’t like someone who doesn’t like themself. The people I fear for are the ones who I don’t like because they hate themselves so much they won’t let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. I’ll miss you. And I know you’ll be okay.”
― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

“Here I am
and there is my body
dancing on glass
In accident time where there are no accidents
You have no choice
the choice comes after”
― Sarah Kane

“I really don't know what "I love you" means.
I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.”
― Neil Gaiman