I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold.
Sylvia PlathPretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.
Sylvia PlathWhen you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.
Sylvia PlathBut I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that somedayโat college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhereโthe bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?
Sylvia Plath