Joce

“The lovers of the innocent must protect them above all from the knowledge of their own cruelty.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“in flammam flammas, in mare fundis aquas”
― Ovid

“You're to come away at once, out of danger. I've got a motor-car and a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Château Peyraguey — which isn't a wine you've ever tasted, so don't pretend. It's heaven with strawberries.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats