Sylvia Plath Quotes About Skins

Quotes about: Skins

• But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.

  Sylvia Plath

  Truth, Blue, Somewhere Else

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.75, Hamilton Books

• Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

  Sylvia Plath

  Tattoo, Heart, Skins

  Sylvia Plath (1994). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams”

• Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his inner ear so he could leave this world as he'd entered it through the undependable irrational influence of water. -Kevin Jeffery Clark It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicidal, Dark, Sea

• As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beautiful, Stars, Wall

  Sylvia Plath (1994). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams”

• And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Boredom, Car

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.64, Faber & Faber

• But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, White, Skins

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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