Sylvia Plath, Aged 23, In A Letter To Richard Sassoon (dated Sunday, 11 December 1955)

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

Maybe it's better this way. End it with a BANG. That way we'll be too caught up fixing the damages we caused, but too tired picking up the pieces we crumbled into.

You didn't even ask how I was. You nuked me with emotions that targetted even my hidden bunkers of peace that previously suffered a quake not hours before. You chose the right time for war. Now who will ask how I am?

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

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

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Leonard Woolf, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

I woke up from a nightmare, but it still seemed better than reality.

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