"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those."

— Sylvia Plath (via janeymac)

"So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."

— Sylvia Plath (via larmoyante)

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

— Sylvia Plath (via roscoe-)

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."

— Sylvia Plath (via little-ponyo)

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

Sylvia Plath  (via phencyclidine)