I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.
Sylvia PlathI do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.
Sylvia PlathWhat is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.
Sylvia PlathI like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
Sylvia PlathI'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.
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