Wintering Quotes

“Just as kindness is inadequate and beauty hard to bear, sometimes happiness itself can be intolerable.”
― Kate Moses, Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath

“what do I deserve? Sylvia contests. Why is the woman always expected to give up on life? She’s a writer, not a teacher. She can; she does. She is the arrow, not him, nor him, nor him, these men who would have her be charming and quiet, reciting the names of insects in Latin, stirring something at a stove.”
― Kate Moses, Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath