Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]

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

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from "The Complete Novels of Mary Shelly,"

March 28, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

Abuse me. If I'm hurting inside, match it with the outside.

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

John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, featured in The Selected Letters of John Keats

I feel sick. Sick of all the emotional turmoils within me.

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

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