Rachel Lesch

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

“Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry "Hold, hold!”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park