Quotes from Sylvia Plath

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks

Then he just stood there in front of me and I kept on staring at him. The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.

She's the sunflower of the Sunflower State.

I feigned sleep until my mother left for school, but even my eyelids didn't shut out the light. They hung the raw, red screen of their tiny vessels in front of me like a wound. I crawled between the mattress and the padded bedstead and let the mattress fall across me like a tombstone. It felt dark and safe under there, but the mattress was not heavy enough. It needed a ton more weight to make me sleep.

it gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything.

I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicious I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer.

Le dije que creía en el infierno, y que ciertas personas, como yo, tenían que vivir en el infierno antes de morir, para compensarlo por perderlo después de la muerte, ya que no creían en la vida después de la muerte, y qué cada persona creyó que eso es lo que le pasaba cuando moría.

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security," and, "What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from

Now the one thing this article didn't seem to me to consider was how a girl felt.

I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big chart of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

It had nothing to do with me, but I couldn't help wondering what it would be like, being burned alive all along your nerves. I thought it must be the worst thing in the world.

Van valami végleges abban, ahogyan valaki elt?nik lassan az úton, nem fordul meg, nem néz vissza. (…) Van valami végtelenül nyomorúságos, végtelenül végleges az üres útban. Csak mégy tovább, hallgatsz. (Egy júniusi nap)

What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?'... 'Tenderness.

Quería estar donde nadie más que yo supiera que podría llegar.

What I couldn't stand was this shrinking everything into letters and numbers. Instead of leaf shapes and enlarged diagrams of the holes the leaves breathe through and fascinating words like carotene and xanthophyll on the blackboard, there were these hideous, cramped, scorpion-lettered formulas in Mr. Manzi's special red chalk.

I am learning how to compromise the wild dream ideals and the necessary realities without such screaming pain.

If i never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

The only thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end

under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air

Hasta insanlar? ??martmamak laz?m, ??mart?lmak onlara kötü gelir, kendilerine gelmeleri için biraz tokatlamak gerekir.

Somehow, in the broad, shadowless light of the moon, the water looked amiable and welcoming. I thought drowning must be the kindest way to die, and burning the worst. Some of those babies in the jars that Buddy Willard showed me had gills, he said. They went through a stage where they were just like fish.

The sight of all the food stacked in those kitchens made me dizzy. It's not that we hadn't enough to eat at home, it's just that my grandmother always cooked economy joints and economy meat loafs and had the habit of saying, the minute you lifted the first forkful to your mouth, "I hope you enjoy that, it cost forty-one cents a pound," which always made me feel I was somehow eating pennies instead of Sunday roast.