Rachel

“...there lay they sheltered from the wind
under mighty beeches silken-skinned,
and sang of love that still shall be,
though earth be foundered under sea,
and sundered here for evermore
shall meet upon the Western Shore.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Beren and Lúthien

“Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History