I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.
Sylvia PlathPerhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
Sylvia PlathSee, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
Sylvia PlathWhat a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,โ and, โWhat a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Sylvia PlathWhen I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadnโt, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.
Sylvia Plath