Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as lo…

Sylvia Plath
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Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.23, Anchor
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