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“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.”
— Syliva Plath
the reader's urge to reread the books that took away your breath as you're reading them the first time
“Thoughts that found a maze of mermaid hair / Tangling in the tide’s green fall / Now fold their wings like bats and disappear / Into the attic of the skull.”
— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Two Lovers & a Beachcomber by the Real Sea,”

Ted Hughes, Collected Poems: Uncollected (1960-67); from ‘Bad News Good!’

Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer, Nancy Mairs
[ID: I was too swallowed up in my life to see it whole,]

My whole being calls for an act of violence, but I still use velvet gloves.
- Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947

— Mary Oliver, from “Flare,” in Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
billie, lana and chappell ♡
