Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir Of Moods And Madness

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

“Ne savez-vous point que vous êtes mon soleil pendant le jour et mon étoile pendant la nuit?”

“Know you not that you are my sun by day and my star by night?”

— Alexandre Dumas, La reine Margot

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

"And Cain says, “When you split me and my brother in the womb, you did not divide us evenly. He got kindness, and I got longing. He got complacence, and I got ambition. I want to kill him sometimes. I think sometimes he wants to die.”

- Nathaniel Orion, "Hevel"

moon·struck

/ˈmo͞onˌstrək/

adjective unable to think or act normally, especially because of being in love. 

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Ottis P. Lord written c. March 1878

“She was very private. I don’t think anyone will ever be able to totally capture her—she seemed so evanescent.”

— Joseph Mitchell

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

— Jane Austen

“There is a kind of person for whom an enthusiasm for boredom represents the beginning of philosophy.”

— Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments