Nikos Kazantzakis, From A Letter Featured In The Selected Letters Of Nikos Kazantzakis

5 May, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

Silence: As it draws inevitably near, so does internal unrest. A chaotic warzone filled with "What if's?". No time for peace, no room for serenity.

— Nikita Gill

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

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

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

“I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.”

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Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"

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

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.