Hidden Beauty

Margaret Atwood, from her novel titled "The Blind Assassin," originally published in 2000

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,"

Nikita Gill, from her book titled "Hekate: the Witch: Poems", published in 2025

Marcel Proust, from a poem featured in The Collected Poems; A Dual Language Edition

Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

L. V., excerpts from the epilogue

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 2: 1934-1939

Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; “Portrait Of Dora,”

Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

The plum you’re going to eat next summer doesn’t exist yet; its potential lives inside a tree you’ll never see in an orchard you’ll never see, will be touched by a certain number of water droplets before it reaches you, by certain angles of light, by a finite amount of bugs and dust motes and hands you’ll never know. The plum you are going to eat next summer will gather sugar, gather mass, will harden at its center so it can soften toward your mouth. The plum you’re going to eat next summer doesn’t know you exist. The plum you are going to eat next summer is growing just for you.

— via @free-my-mindd