8 notes"I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved."
— John Green
3 notes"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul."
— Vladimir Nabokov
54 notes"How all this life would vanish, evaporate, if I didn’t clutch at it, cling to it, while I still remember some twinge or glory."
— Sylvia Plath
12 notes"I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter & mature glow."
— Sylvia Plath
1 note"I have in me these seeds of life."
— Sylvia Plath
17 notes"To be god: to be every life before we die: a dream to drive men mad. But to be one person, one woman - to live, suffer, bear children & learn other lives & make them into print worlds spinning like planets in the minds of other men."
— Sylvia Plath
14 notes"The comment, “You’re lucky; it could have been worse,” is the kind of “helpfulness” I can do without. It also could have been better, or actually, it couldn’t have been any other way than the way it was."
— Hugh Prather
3 notes"I don’t need a “reason” to be happy, I don’t have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now."
— Hugh Prather
1 note"There is little I can do about my feelings, but awareness removes the edge of myopia from my wants."
— Hugh Prather
3 notes"My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it."
— Hugh Prather
