Virginia Woolf, From A Letter To Katherine Cox, Featured In The Selected Letters Of Virginia Woolf

nah just cuddling ain't enough, I want to merge my soul with hers

to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

Yeah now we've entered the back pain stage

Stop waiting to feel ready. Ready is not a feeling, it’s a decision.

APRIL FOOL 1959 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’

Franz Kafka, 1912

𝔦𝔱’𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔰𝔣𝔦𝔢𝔡

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