Martha Gellhorn, From A Letter To David Gurewitsch Featured In The Selected Letters Of Martha Gellhorn

M.S. (via coffee-crinkled-pages)

Anne Sexton, from an interview featured in No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews & Prose

Anna de Noailles, from "Tranquility" in Poems

— Mallory Pearson, The Heaviest Rain We Ever Had

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

Joy Sullivan, “The Electrician Sings "Easy Love" in the Kitchen While Fixing My Light”, Instructions for Traveling West

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

Starvation shall kill me.

Sylvia Plath, aged 23, in a letter to Richard Sassoon (dated Sunday, 11 December 1955)