Arches National Park, Utah Photo: Elliot McGucken

Sylvia Plath, aged 23, in a letter to Ted Hughes (dated Wednesday, 10 October 1956)

family: “why are you just sitting in ur room smiling at ur phone?”

me who’s been reading smut about fictional characters for the past 6 hours:

Delusional

I believed I could cure it all, for you, dear

from “dead schoolgirl’s confession” (unpublished poem)

I hate that I condemn a good thing before it even has the chance to happen, maybe that’s why it never does.

_Shady

From "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath", dated October 1, 1957

your father is always mad and the music is always loud

“Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, War Songs