Elis

“I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“I don't have a body, I am a body.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando