Sylvia Plath, Letters Home (August 2, 1952)
― Jack Kerouac
"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those."
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
— Anne Sexton, Imitations of Drowning
“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t. I just watched. Paralyzed.”
-Khaled Hosseini, The kite runner
-Vladimir Nabokov, from letter to Vera Nabokov dated July 1923, featured in Letters to Vera