Courtney Marie Andrews, From Old Monarch: Poems; “Against All Odds”

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Margaret Llewyn Davis, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Where you are understood, you are at home.

John O'Donohue

Still lives in sepia tones — where scent, structure, and slow thinking trace the contours of a modern mind.

Sylvia Plath, aged 30, in a letter to her mother, 6 months after discovering her husband's infidelity, and their subsequent separation (dated Wednesday, 16 January 1963)

[Ted Hughes (aged 32) - her husband, who was having an affair with Assia Wevill (aged 35), a married woman who rented their London flat at Chalcot Square; Sylvia moved with their children (a 2-year-old daughter & an 11-month-old son) from Court Green in Devon, to 23 Fitzroy Road in London, at a rented flat, formerly the residence of W. B. Yeats]

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

Ken van Sickle

I know my sadness will pass if I do not cling to it so tightly

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