Ellie A

“I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation he was to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace