Neville Goddard, From The Power Of Awareness

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

Federico García Lorca, from "3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta,"

imagine if every chapter in a real book ended with an author's note

“You may think: What’s happened? Good God, are they kidding? But it is a rule of life, alas, that nobody is kidding.”

— Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost

She’s a ten but she threw 100,000 rubles in the fire and dared her fiancé to pull them out, abandoned another fiancé at the altar, and wreaks chaos wherever she goes, so she’s a twelve.

Denise Levertov, from This Great Unknowning: Last Poems; “Feet”

there's something about Dostoyevsky characters suddenly bursting into tears that just hits different

Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954

It's a pale, silent day: I would like to be walking in a wood, far away.

Katherine Mansfield in a diary entry dated 21 October 1918