Sekhmet

“Hunger is always a kind of emptiness - an absence of nourishment - but what it will take to replenish it is far from obvious.”
― Bee Wilson, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“And yet he did genuinely love Cordelia. Not with any kind of physical love. That was impossible. But with a feeling of pity that shook the foundations of his nature.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“He looked up. She was standing a few feet away from him. He noticed that she was wearing a black beret at a rakish angle and that she looked exciting and mysterious like someone you see driving by abroad, alone in an open car, someone unattainable and more desirable than anyone you have ever known. Someone who is on her way to make love to somebody else. Someone who is not for you.”
― Ian Fleming, Moonraker

“Sir Walter Raleigh, said to have written on a window with a diamond to Queen Elizabeth: "Fain would I climb, but yet fear I to fall."
Queen Elizabeth: "If thy heart fail thee, then climb not at all.”
― Elizabeth I