Natalie Díaz, From “That Which Cannot Be Stilled”, Postcolonial Love Poem

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.

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley written in September 1822, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

Sylvia Plath, aged 23, in a letter to Richard Sassoon (dated Sunday, 11 December 1955)

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

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

Shit, this ain't good. This aint going the way it should.

Don't like this, don't like that, but you're making my heart beat fast.

Trying to block it and ignore it but you're making me restless, dammit!

Don't be vague, tell me straight what you're hiding with those-- wait!

Gotta breath, calm my ass. This aint something I should fuss.

(i like you)