Danielle

“I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The reason I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.
I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next bad suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.
It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash it again the next.
It made me tired just to think of it.
I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I think what you mean is a totally different phobia. Fear that the things you imagine will turn real.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“I don't think blood's the only way kids come by things honest. Not even the main way. It's what you tell them, Taylor. If a person is bad, say, it makes them feel better to tell their kids that they're even worse. And that's just exactly what they'll grow up to be.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees