Elise Handy

“I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“Not under foreign skies
Nor under foreign wings protected -
I shared all this with my own people
There, where misfortune had abandoned us.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this 'must'. A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath — and dying.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We