What Will I Do With All My Wishes If I Can't Wish For You?

Nizar Qabbani // Franz Kafka

If I lose you too in the same way I lost her, it just proves how pitiful and useless I have been. No more 3rd time. It hit like a bus the first time; it'll hit like a train this time.

— C.T. Salazar; Headless John The Baptist Hitchhiking

14 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

May, 1936 Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939 [volume 2]

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

— Mallory Pearson, The Heaviest Rain We Ever Had

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter Is Late,"

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