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“The box is only temporary.”

“And I, love, am a pathological liar.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It never occurred to me to say no.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 18

“God, who am I?”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Don't let the wicked city get you down.”

“Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“I am I am I am.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.”

“A ring of gold with the sun in it?
Lies. Lies and a grief.”

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”

“Ready for a new life”

“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole---
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.”

Source: The Collected Poems

“You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time…”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Miracles occur,
If you dare to call those spasmodic
Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's
begun again,
The long wait for the angel,
For that rare, random descent.”

“The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.”

“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T. B.
Once you were beautiful.”

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition