Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn."

"I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give."