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“He felt that his soul had remained among the pirates – he was young and from the country and still ignorant of Love’s piracies.”
― Longus, Daphnis and Chloe

“Understand the style of garment that adorns your body, the styles of dwellings in which you spend your leisure hours, the place in which you hunt. Understand what it means to feel the passage of time! Yes, and feel all the pain of seeing things die... Of course. You are made to triumph over time, not to run from it.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,
It stands as an edict in destiny:
Then let us teach our trial patience,
Because it is a customary cross,
As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,
Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream