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"That was my last act of love."

-Aurelia Schober Plath quoting Sylvia Plath's first words on regaining consciousness after her suicide attempt in 1953, from the documentary 'Voices and Visions: Sylvia Plath'

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Paralysis again. How I waste my days. I feel a terrific blocking and chilling go through me like anaesthesia.

Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath ⁠— 4th November 1959

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November, slaughter month, the month of blood.

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'The Year I Was Born: the day by day chronicle of events in the year of your birth'

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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980; February 17th, 1970

Text ID: I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall—like seeking love in a whorehouse.