Mary Shelley, from her novel titled "Frankenstein," originally published in 1818

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1986 | 2019 → aleksander comforting regina

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Adlai Stevenson featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Where is Mikkel? When is Mikkel?

And the crazy thing is, there’s nothing wrong with them. They’re okay. I’m what’s wrong.

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

— Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova; “March Elegies”

Maggie Smith, from a poem titled "Self-Portrait as an Incomplete List of Mysteries," featured in A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid, tr. Sean Cotter

dunya mikhail / wisława szymborska / marina tsvetaeva / margaret atwood

He might have defied and proved those Illyrian pricks wrong at every turn, but it won’t matter if Rhys makes him Prince of Velaris – he’ll see himself as a bastard-born nobody, and not good enough for anyone.