Gabrielle

“Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“His roving eyes began to moisten, and before the hymn was ended, scalding tears rolled out of a fountain that had long seemed dry, and followed each other down those cheeks that had oftener felt the storms of heaven, than any testimonials of weakness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

“Had we but wisdom, thou wouldst have no Divinity, O Fortune: it is we that make thee into a Goddess!”
― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia