Seeing life through burning eyes

Virginia Woolf, from a short story featured in The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf

Makenzie Campbell, from a poem featured in "Room of the Mind: Poems" originally published in 2021

Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Olga Knipper-Chekhova featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Olga Knipper-Chekhova featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Olga Knipper-Chekhova featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

Salma Deera, from a poem titled "the divorce battle of jason and medea," featured in Letters from Medea: Poems

Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

Ivan Bunin, from a story titled "Mitya's Love," feature in Sunstroke: The Selected Stories of Ivan Bunin

J. M. Grosvalet, from her book titled "Sugar Spells," originally published in 2025

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from his novel titled "White Nights," originally published in 1848

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Ernest Hemingway featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

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

Yosano Akiko, quoted "Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Rebirth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry,"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Roger Fry, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959