abbii˙⋆☕︎ ༘’s Reviews > The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath > Status Update

i first read this book when i was going through very rough time, i was looking back at old annotations i want to give my past self a hug

we are so back (kind of..)

this might be a controversial take but since marrying ted hughes, there wasn’t any quotes that really resonated with me nor made me think “wow, i need a moment to think about this.” basically she got boring 😭😭 (so sorry sylvia i love your fig tree analogy)

“oh hungry hungry. i am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love: i am here; i wait; and he plays on the banks of the river cam like a casual faun.” is this play about me🫩

“‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’ … why do my beheld beauties vanish and deform themselves as soon as i look twice.”

“i need a father. i need a mother. i need someone wiser to cry to. i talk to god, but the sky is empty”

holy fucking shit sylvia stop attacking me🫩🫩💔

i’ve underlined so many heart wrenching quotes that resonates with me. maybe it’s because i’m a teenage girl who’s petrified about her future? who knows, though petrified would be an understatement. “i look at the hell i am wallowing in, nerves paralyzed, action nullified — fear, envy, hate; all the corrosive emotions of insecurity biting away my sensitive guts” sylvia plath you’ve done it again🥲.