If It Wasn't For Fear, I'd Be Laying Lifeless On The Floor Of This Cold, Dead Room.

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,

Simone de Beauvoir, from "Inseraparable: A Never Before Published Novel,"

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2019

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

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Ernest Hemingway featured in The Selected Letters of Marth Gellhorn

— Margaret Atwood, Late Night

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

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Robert Sherrod featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

"The parts we can't tell, we carry them well

But that doesn't mean they're not heavy"

- Alana Beck