Cherry

— Virginia Woolf

i don't want to be madly in love ever again... i want to be healthy in love, sanely in love, peacefully in love.

Franz Kafka, 1912

Me to myself

There’s a graveyard inside me filled with the versions of myself I had to bury so I could make it this far.

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Mary Oliver, from “Of Love”, Red Bird

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

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Janet Fitch, from her novel titled "White Oleander," originally published in 1999

Megan Nolan, from her novel titled "Acts of Desperation," originally published in March 2021

— Kriti G.

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Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

— Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer

Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf, featured in The Letters of Vita Sackville West & Virginia Woolf

— Fortesa Latifi; everything there is