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“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (...) I want, I think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself "The girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be—perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. I am I—I am powerful—but to what extent? I am I.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Your security and love of life don't depend on the presence of another, but only on yourself, your chosen work, and your developing identity. Then you can safely choose to enrich your life by marrying another person, and not, as e e cummings says, until.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day, spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. I want, I think, to be omniscient.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“...for I realized how narrow my world had been and that self-education could be and should be an exciting life-long adventure.”
― Aurelia Schober Plath, Letters Home

“...Life happens so hard and fast I sometimes wonder who is me...”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“The consequences of love affairs would stop me from my independent freedom of creative activity, and I don't intend to be stopped.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“…I am glad the rain is coming down hard. It’s the way I feel inside.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (words from Aurelia Plath from the Introduction)”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Writing sharpens life; life enriches writing.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

“It does not do to trust people too much.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
― Anne Frank

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“To be alive is to be missing.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

“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

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation