Ana

“My eyes were consumed by your loveliness, but you have become my eyes.”
― Pablo Neruda, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“Kind sir, give me a good fortune.

Fortuneteller:
I don’t make fortunes; I only see them.

Charmian:
Then see a good one for me.

Fortuneteller:
Your beauty will be even greater than it is now.

Charmian
(to the others) He means I’ll get fat.

Iras
No, he means you’ll use makeup when you’re old.

Fortuneteller:
You will love more than you are loved.

Charmian:
I had rather heat my liver with drinking.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Oh, Charmian, Where think’st thou he is now? Stands he or sits he?
Or does he walk? Or is he on his horse?
O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
Do bravely, horse, for wott’st thou whom thou mov’st?
The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
And burgonet of men. He’s speaking now,
Or murmuring “Where’s my serpent of old Nile?”
For so he calls me. Now I feed myself
With most delicious poison. Think on me,
That am with Phoebus’ amorous pinches black
And wrinkled deep in time. Broad-fronted Caesar,
When thou wast here above the ground, I was
A morsel for a monarch. And great Pompey
Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow.
There would he anchor his aspect, and die
With looking on his life.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra