Helosï

“This text that I give you is not to be seen close up: it gains its secret previously invisible roundness when seen from a high-flying plane. Then you can divine the play of islands and see the channels and seas. Understand me: I write you an onomatopoeia, convulsion of language. I’m not transmitting to you a story but just words that live from sound. I speak to you thus:
“Lustful trunk.”
― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“I felt purged and holy and ready for a new life.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar: A Novel Classic

“Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,
He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly
Contained his anguish. […]
Aeneas, more than any, secretly
Mourned for them all”
― Virgil, The Aeneid