-Suicide Letters From Anne Sexton

Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere"

[...] the more we are hurt, the more we are likely to take refuge in the imagination, [...]

Joyce Carol Oates, from The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

— Slipknot from “Birth Of The Cruel.”

Jennifer Chang, from "Dialogues (Against Literature)"

Anne Sexton, "You, Doctor Martin," from To Bedlam and Part Way Back

— Louise Bourgeois, from a diary entry featured in Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father.

“I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect.”

— Tana French, In The Woods

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy” — Henry Miller