I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myse…

Sylvia Plath
472 citations
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.44, Hamilton Books
Reading
16

More Author Quotes

I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.62, Hamilton Books
There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge, For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a … ▶
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in ba … ▶
To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying t … ▶
I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined i … ▶

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.44, Hamilton Books

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes