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“When you are old, at evening candle-lit
beside the fire bending to your wool,
read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ
this praise for me when I was beautiful."
And not a maid but, at the sound of it,
though nodding at the stitch on broidered stool,
will start awake, and bless love's benefit
whose long fidelities bring Time to school.
I shall be thin and ghost beneath the earth
by myrtle shade in quiet after pain,
but you, a crone, will crouch beside the hearth
mourning my love and all your proud disdain.
And since what comes to-morrow who can say?
Live, pluck the roses of the world to-day.”
― Pierre de Ronsard, Sonnets pour Hélène

“When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them. Even if he doesn't come back, even if he gets lost in the snow or is hit by a stray bullet, she'll wait for him.”
― Irène Némirovsky, The Wine of Solitude

“For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we study the faces of 'old people' and sense that one day we will be just like them. And that is the moment when early childhood comes to an end.”
― Irène Némirovsky, The Wine of Solitude

“You are a fool.”
― Dave Malloy

“Of course they’ll catch him.â€� I fail to keep the bitterness out of my voice, and Helene gives me a hard look.
“The cowardly scum,â€� I add.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“How many in Antium lost those beloved to them when the Karkauns attacked? How many like Dex, who hide who they love because the Empire would kill them for it? How many like Laia, betrayed and then left to claw her way through her pain? How many like me, Shrike, pining for someone who no longer exists? You are lucky enough to love someone who loves you back. He is alive and breathing and in the same vicinity as you. By the skies, do something about it. However long you have. For whatever time you get. Because if you don't, I swear that you'll regret it. You'll regret it for all your years.”
― Sabaa Tahir