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Joanna Klink, from “On Diminishment”, The Nightfields

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May Sarton, The House by the Sea

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

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May Sarton, The House by the Sea

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

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-unknown source.

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Zehra Naqvi, from The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose; “Grocery Shopping”

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Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “All inner life runs at some delay”

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

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Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “Wound is the origin of wonder”

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so much of adulthood is just grieving in secret. grieving ex lovers, grieving dead friendships, grieving your parents sinking into old age, grieving the person you thought you'd grow into. grieving cities you never got to live in. grieving parts of you that couldn't survive.

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Angela Carter, from "The Lady of the House of Love" in The Collected Stories

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Jane Austen, Emma