Virginia Woolf, from her book titled "Night and Day," originally published in 1919

Trista Mateer, from a poem featured in her collection titled The Dogs I Have Kissed

Christa Wolf, from her novel titled "Cassandra," originally published in 1983

If I’ve learned one lesson from all that’s happened to me, it’s that there’s no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. Sophie Kinsella

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Fire from A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1937