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“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.

From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Collected Poems

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

Sylvia Plath

“The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Mother of otherness,
Eat me.”

Sylvia Plath

“Is it the sea you hear in me?
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?

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

Sylvia Plath

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“Perhaps 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 Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.”

Sylvia Plath

Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (December 1955), quoted in Joyce Carol Oates, &quot;Raising Lady Lazarus,&quot; The New York Times (2000-11-05) http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/05/reviews/001105.05oatest.html <br class="br">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) <br class="br">Variant: Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Variant: I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 20

“You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Collected Poems

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.”

Sylvia Plath

1950 entry, quoted in Gayle Wurst, Voice and Vision: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (1999), p. 158
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7

“This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.
The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

&quot;The Moon and the Yew Tree&quot; http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/yew.html <br class="br">Ariel (1965)