— Louise Glück, "The Burning Heart"

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

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

Anne Carson, from her book titled "Short Talks," originally published in 1992

John Murry, from a letter to Katherine Mansfield featured in The Letters of John Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield

To the Desert, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

— Margaret Atwood, Late Night

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

Guandalupe Nettel, from her novel titled "Stillborn," originally published in 2020

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