Lexlingua

“What brings you here, Kit? No wish to offend you, but not quite the thing, you know!’

Her lip trembled. She replied with a catch in her voice: ‘I am running away!’

‘Oh, running away!’ said Mr Standen, satisfied.”
― Georgette Heyer, Cotillion

“One species, Salix babylonica – the weeping willow – got its name from a mistranslation of Psalm 137: ‘By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion, Upon the willows in the midst of it, We hung our harps.”
― Jonathan Drori, Around the World in 80 Trees:

“Only through pain can you be sure of the truth”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

“KING (to Sakuntala): O fair lady!
The tear drop that once stood
trembling on your lower lip
-and I watched uncaring, lost in delusion-
while it still clings to your gently-curving lashes,
I shall now wipe away, my beloved,
to free myself of remorse.”
― Kālidāsa, The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems