Letters home Quotes

“You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.”

“I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk”

“How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”

“Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (words from Aurelia Plath from the Introduction)”

“They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is still much pain left, after all these years, from the Vietnam War. But this I know. I would rather to have had you for 21 years, and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all.”

“Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.”

“Writing sharpens life”