Quotes About Sylvia

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?

No. I have a place near Woodstock, but I've been spending more time here lately." Sylvia made a sound like she was clucking. "For one very obvious reason." I glanced at her and waited for more, but Gran said, "Now, Sylvia. Leave them be." I glanced swiftly at Rafe but he appeared oblivious.

You mean," Sylvia interrupted, "something that floats around aimlessly? With no mind? No purpose?" "Well. Yeah." "Wow," she said in true awe. "The stars could be filled with government employees." Dusty

Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November morning!

His heroes were solitary thinkers and supermen like Newton and Nietzsche.

His spirits, sharpened by disliking the bishop as an appetite is sharpened by pickles, took an upward turn.

all her thoughts slid together again like a pack of hounds that have picked up the scent.

Yet Sylvia told others she was "daring to live the way most people dream of living when they are fifty: to sacrifice all for our ideal of a good life, not other people's cars & securities & 10 year leases.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.

For Sylvia's greatest bequest was the reminder that true friends are the most precious gift, and that even in the darkest of times love illuminates the way home.

Typical of Sylvia to bring a poinsettia. As though she knew. The congenitally heavy-handed are capable even of unwitting brutalities.

Last night at Bingo, Sylvia won the last prize. 'What am I going to do with a mermaid?" "Learn to swim in the murkiest water, reinvent yourself," the mermaid said #149

Sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled by Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species