If I lived by the sea I would never be really sad. I get an immense sense of eternity and peace from the ocean. I can lose myself in staring at it hour after hour.
Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath.
musings on writing
Heaven Is Not Verbose: A Notebook by Vera Pavlova (tr. Steven Seymour), Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood, A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector, Isak Dinesen quoted by Raymond Carver, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Max Brod by Franz Kafka, Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch, The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Summer has been consuming my energy in the most ruthless way. I miss the fun, which was so tremendously lively all October, November and December.
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry c. June 1927
you know what would be really cool? if i didn’t have so much anxiety. all. the. time.
life is so good when ur reading a book and taking it w u everywhere like your little child
“in-ear headphones are bad for your hearing” actually they’re perfect because the music is inside of you
My true love will always be The Secret History. No man can compare to those flawless pages.
He is terribly afraid of dying
because he hasn't yet lived.
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis.
god is hiding in between the pages of your favorite book that you haven't read yet and when you're done god will hide in another
30 minute recipe? Psh. I can do it in an hour and a half
babygirl I'm bothered by noises you wouldn't even hear