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Jay Cee's ugly as sin. — Sylvia Plath

Whenever I thought about men and men, and women and women, I could never really imagine what they would actually be doing. — Sylvia Plath

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath

I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill. — Sylvia Plath

I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together. — Sylvia Plath

It started back in '79,
My whole darn future was on the line.
I created a brand new sensation
Through my mind and the whole darn nation ... — Sylvia Robinson

I felt wise and cynical as all hell. — Sylvia Plath

I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling. — Sylvia Plath

Worse even than your maddening song, your silence. — Sylvia Plath

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant. — Sylvia Day

People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963 — Sylvia Plath

That sensation of being caught - claimed - challenged me on the deepest level. — Sylvia Day

Whose is that long white box in the grove, what have they accomplished, why am I cold. — Sylvia Plath

Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Inflation is the senility of democracies. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

If you're in the same room with me, I don't see anyone else — Sylvia Day

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me-GC — Sylvia Day

Confucius say, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day — Sylvia Day

What have you learned from those times when life was easy? — Sylvia Browne

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere. — Sylvia Plath

If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows. — Sylvia Plath

The abstract kills, the concrete saves. — Sylvia Plath

The tulips are too red ... they hurt me. — Sylvia Plath

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. — Sylvia Plath

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. — Sylvia Plath

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

If people have simple solutions to the situation on the border, it's not a solution. — Sylvia Longmire

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I wondered at what point in space the silly, sham blue of the sky turned black. — Sylvia Plath

What ceremony of words can patch the havoc? — Sylvia Plath

Women's evolution unfolded through stages in the last 100 years. The first stage was "Wonder Woman," an idealized figure who functioned like — Sylvia Becker-Hill

Please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand. — Sylvia Plath

What did my arms do before they held you? — Sylvia Plath

Perhaps ... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark. — Sylvia Boorstein

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty. — Sylvia Kristel

It never occurred to me to say no. — Sylvia Plath

I can only hazard. In the back of my mind there are bombs falling, women and children screaming, but I can't describe it now. — Sylvia Plath

'Putting People First' was progressivism revived and at its best. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

It was only after seeing Irwin's study that I decided to seduce him. — Sylvia Plath

If you don't write, then read. — Sylvia L'Namira

Knowing the truth brings happiness. — Sylvia Boorstein

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. — Sylvia Plath

Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived. — Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Nigger-eye
Berries cast dark
Hooks --

Black sweet blood mouthfuls,
Shadows. — Sylvia Plath

Hatred will never cease by hatred, Only love will erase hatred, This is the eternal law. — Sylvia Boorstein

As long as I have you, I can wither any storm. — Sylvia Day

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. — Sylvia Plath

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal. — Sylvia Earle

So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something. — Sylvia Plath

I thought I could save a very worthwhile person. — Sylvia Nasar

If I was any more pleased with you, I would lose what little remains of my sanity. — Sylvia Day

There was nothing so attractive as a powerful, handsome, and self-assured man. — Sylvia Day

You want a sheet-clawing, back-arching, mind-blowing fuck, and I want to pound my cock into you until I've come my last drop. — Sylvia Day

The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots. — Sylvia Plath

People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart. — Sylvia Nasar

Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred. — Sylvia Day

If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit. — Sylvia Plath

WIDOW. The word consumes itself, said Sylvia Plath, who consumed herself. — Lauren Groff

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy. — Sylvia Plath

Don't leave me."
"Leave you? I'm going to marry you. — Sylvia Day

I self-paralyze myself & wonder what I've got in my head. — Sylvia Plath

Nooooooo ... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid! — Sylvia Sidney

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. — Sylvia Plath

She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever. — Sylvia Plath

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off — Sylvia Plath

What had Sylvia done? — V.C. Andrews

May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend. — Sylvia Boorstein

That's what scares me, Gideon. You don't know what you're worth."
"Actually, I do. Twelve bill - " "Shut up. — Sylvia Day

You show me no mercy by sparing me for a life without you in it. — Sylvia Day

If you stop evolving as a person, you're done." Sylvia Hasenkopf- — Linda Maran

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. — Sylvia Plath

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do. — Sylvia Earle

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. — Sylvia Plath

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ... — Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

My master's degree was in English literature. — Sylvia Browne

They mistake their star, these papery godfolk. — Sylvia Plath

You inherit white heather, a bee's wing,
Two suicides, the family wolves,
Hours of blankness. — Sylvia Plath

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life. — Sylvia Earle

The frost makes a flower,
the dew makes a star. — Sylvia Plath

Over coffee and orange juice the embryonic suicide brightens visibly. — Sylvia Plath

As I paddled on, mt heartbeat boomed like a motor in my ears. I am I am I am. — Sylvia Plath

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give. — Sylvia Plath

I knew you'd decide to be all right again. — Sylvia Plath

...Life happens so hard and fast I sometimes wonder who is me... — Sylvia Plath

I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love. — Sylvia Plath

There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get. — Sylvia Plath

So hot the pages should be on fire! [on Pleasures of the Night ] — Gena Showalter

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better. — Sylvia Porter

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. — Sylvia Plath

I went to the bronze boy whom I love, partly because no one really cares for him — Sylvia Plath

I never forgive attacks on my work. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

You were doing fine," a familiar voice informed my ear, "until that man stepped into your path. — Sylvia Plath

side-by-side with books — Sylvia Libow Martinez

Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey. — Sylvia Plath

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book. — Sylvia Brownrigg

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. — Sylvia Browne

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. — Sylvia Earle