Helena

“I’m going to go back and stop your son from killing her.”
The queen’s face fell. For a moment, she looked as old as the years she’d spent lying in a suspended state. “That is not a small mistake to fix. If you do this, Time will take something equally valuable from you.”
The Fate gave the queen a look more vicious than any curse. “There is nothing of equal value to me.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“It is a painful thing
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.”
― Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1

“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice