Mallory Briggs

“You could grow to love something so strong and elemental, but you’d have to value the beauty of it more than you did your own life.”
― Alice Hoffman, Everything My Mother Taught Me

“You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I don’t believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar