Shona

“My dearest husband, Can it really be ten long years since you sailed from Ithaca to join Agamemnon and the other Greek kings in their ignoble quest to bring Helen back from Troy? Was it a thousand ships which sailed, in the end? That’s what the bards sing now. A thousand ships, all sailing across the perilous oceans in hope of finding one man’s wife. It remains, I’m sure you agree, an astonishing state of affairs.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. (4.1.56–58)”
― Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

“wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. (4.1.56–”
― Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare