Madison Julius Cawein, “Dusk In The Woods”

If it wasn't for fear, I'd be laying lifeless on the floor of this cold, dead room.

— Nikita Gill

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

Each cut of fiber on my skin should represent the things I deserved. The pain I deserve. If I counted all, I may not be breathing by dawn.

-Franz Kafka, from Letters to Felice

Maybe one day I'll finally find somewhere to wrap my noose around. Until that day comes, I am happy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

— Mallory Pearson, The Heaviest Rain We Ever Had

Anna de Noailles, from "Tranquility" in Poems

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