Joce

“To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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

“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

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