Ada Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov

Obelisk and Metronome / Stanley Kunitz, from "The Testing-Tree"

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.

C.G. Jung

Franz Kafka, 1912

5 April, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

— triata mateer, honeybee

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

March 31, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from  “Women who Run with the Wolves,” published in 1992