Rebekah

“But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,
And Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

“Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the object no corner is left for saying 'I'. We cannot imagine such joys when they are absent, thus the incentive for seeking them is lacking.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“How now, my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thien own knee?”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1