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

“The states that have taken in the most immigrants over the past half century have not grown poorer.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

“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

“Something wicked this way comes, she thought, and wondered where that line was from.”
― Laurie L. Dove, Mask of the Deer Woman