echoes that shaped me ⋆.˚
my favourite quotes, poetry and lines in literature currently reading: the journals of sylvia plath
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Franz Kafka
“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.”
Franz Kafka
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
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Sylvia Plath
“i cut you out because i couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. before i give you my body, i must give you my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. and you weren’t having any of those.”
Sylvia Plath
“i have to love my life, and it is the only one i’ll ever have. and you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.”
Sylvia Plath
“i may never be happy, but tonight i am content.”
Sophie Mackintosh
“but maybe it is femininity itself that is the strange thing.”
Janeva Rose
“addiction is exhausting for both the users and the ones they use.”
Janeva Rose
“he’s my family but he’s also a stranger. a familiar stranger, what an odd thing to be.”
Jacqueline Harpman
“I cannot mourn for what I had not known.”
Jacqueline Harpman
“Then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.”
Virgina Woolf
"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
Jeffery Eugenides
“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly.”
Sylvia Plath
“Something in me wants more. I can’t rest.”
Brenna Womer
“I was – am – terrified of being owned. By a god or a man or a child or a place. By anyone or anything but myself.”
Liana Rădulescu
“My heart is so full of you, I can hardly call it my own.”
Virginia Woolf
“I may be feeding an impure hunger.”
Oscar Wilde
“My existence is a scandal.”
Richard Siken
“I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything… I want to tell this story without having to be in it.”
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“Mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each other: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be.”
Linda Pastan
“But something is wrong. Grief is a circular staircase. I have lost you.”
Virginia Woolf
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“But how could you live and have no story?”
Virginia Woolf
“It is words that are to blame. They are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible, most unteachable of all things.”
Franz Kafka
"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."
Franz Kafka
“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party; and I had attended with my real face.”
