— Salma Deera, from “the room, the building, etc.,” Letters From Medea

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. II: 1956-1963

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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

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Forugh Farrokhzad, from Let Us Believe In the Beginning of the Cold Season; "Another Birth,"

— Vladimir Nabokov in his letter to future wife Véra Yevseyevna Slonim dated July 1923, Letters to Véra

Patricia A. McKillip, from her book titled "The Book of Atrix Wolfe," originally published in 1995

Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Return To Me,"

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

Joan Didion, writing about the shock that followed after the death of her husband, John.

— John Muir, quoted in Samuel Hall Young‘s Alaska Days with John Muir 

Alex Dimitrov, “Poem Written in a Cab”, Love and Other Poems

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

Maggie Smith, “Wild”

Brian Cotnoir, from On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy