I don't need you to save me

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

Sylvia Plath, "Three Women"

Charlotte Brontë, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Charlotte Brontë

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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

Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

Makenzie Campbell, from a poem featured in "2 a.m. Thoughts," originally published in 2017

Marcel Proust, from a story featured in "The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust," originally published in 2001