Each cut of fiber on my skin should represent the things I deserved. The pain I deserve. If I counted all, I may not be breathing by dawn.
I'll leave you for now, won't ask what that's about. But I'll wait for a recall. Remember me in the midst of it all.
“I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.”
Franz Khafka, Letters to Milena // Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice // Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters
One day, these memories will creep out my eyes and leave traces as it touches my cheeks with cold hands.
Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student
Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,
If it wasn't for fear, I'd be laying lifeless on the floor of this cold, dead room.
Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student