As Soon As You Feel The Summer Melancholy Creep In On You And Your Brain Is Telling You To Rot In Bed

“Everything has been figured out,

except how to live.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

- Ivan Turgenev

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

She’s a ten but she threw 100,000 rubles in the fire and dared her fiancé to pull them out, abandoned another fiancé at the altar, and wreaks chaos wherever she goes, so she’s a twelve.

"There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship."

–Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

— Anaïs Nin, from The Voice

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Nearer the Moon: The Previously Unpublished Unexpurgated Diary, 1937-1939