Water, Melanin, Bones, Blood.

— Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman written c. 1951, featured in The Collected Letters

Julia de Burgos, from a poem titled "That You Love Me," featured in Song of the Simple Truth: Poems

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

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

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

Clarice Lispector, from a letter in translation to Tania Kauffman, featured in All Letters of Clarice Lispector

— Greg Santora

Mu Xin, from a poem titled "After The Sleigh Incident," featured in A century of modern Chinese poetry : an anthology

— Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; "The Fear" (via lunamonchtuna)

— Time passing isn’t an apology. (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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— Laureane Antunes (via quebrantai-vos)