Elliot

“Where is Polonius?
- In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I stopped irresolute at the far end of the avenue: staring into the dark foliage I greedily breathed the humid fragrance of decay and dying to which something within me responded with greeting.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Thou know’st ’tis common. All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles